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cn coin 2568

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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_0149_R55 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΟΣΙ-ΔΗΙ-Ο
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; in left field, three dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Posideios II (Maroneia) 🔍  

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

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 149.1,Varna

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 135, nr. 149.1, pl. 8, pic. 149/1 

Brüder Egger, Auktionskatalog. Griechische Münzen aus dem Besitze des Fürsten Ch. und A. Öffentliche Versteigerung am 7. Januar 1908, Wien, Wien 1908-01-07 pl. 10, pic. 308 

Ratto, Auktionskatalog, Mailand 13. März 1912, Mailand 1912 pl. 14, pic. 558 

Naville, Sammlung C. S. Bement/Philadelphia USA 6, Genua 1923 pl. 29, pic. 822 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 62, nr. 20, pl. 8 

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Lockett Collection 3/2. Sicily-Thrace (Gold and Silver), Oxford 1957 p. 23, nr. 1193 

Glendining & Co., Catalogue of Part VI of the celebrated collection of coins formed by the late Richard Cyril Lockett 2, 1958, London 1958 p. 5, nr. 1109 

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. 149

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 2568, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2568 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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