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cn coin 2566

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CN Type 828 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0147_V40 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡ-ΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, crested Corinthian helmet, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0147_R53 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΟΣΙ-ΔΗΙ-Ο
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Posideios II (Maroneia) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
13.80 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235228

Provenience: 1900 Sammlung Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 147,Imh

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 155, nr. 147, pl. 8, pic. 147  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Griechische Münzen in dem königlichen Münzkabinet im Haag und in den anderen Sammlungen. 3, 1876 p. 284, nr. 23  ❐

Münsterberg, Die Beamtennamen auf den griechischen Münzen: geographisch und alphabetisch geordnet ; 3 Teile u. Nachtr. in e. Bd., 1973 nr. 94  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 62, nr. 19, pl. 8  ❐

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. 147 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 135, nr. 145-151 (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 2566, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2566 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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