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cn coin 2562

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CN Type 827 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0143_V38 🔍
Design
Horse prancing right; above, wheel with four spikes. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0144_R50 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤ-ΡΟ-ΦΩ-Ν
Design
Vine with two bunches of grapes, one on each side, within linear square; in left field, two dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrophon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
Diameter
22.5 mm
Weight
13.95 g
Owner

Koninklijk Kabinet van Munten, Penningen en Gesneden Stenen - Den Haag / Nationale Numismatische Collectie - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, nl

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 2016

Provenience: Sammlung Six 751

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 144, Den Haag

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 134, nr. 144, pl. 8, pic. 144 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 64, nr. 43, pl. 10 

Literature

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 173, nr. 144

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 134, nr. 143-144 (Reduced thraco-macedonian standard, 436/35-411/10 BC) 

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 167 (Reduced chian standard, 430-400 BC.) 

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cn coin 2562, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2562 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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