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cn coin 2572

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CN Type 828 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0151_V42 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, Corinthian helmet, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0151_R57 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΟΣΙΔΗΙΟΣ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grape, two on each side, within linear square; in left field, four dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Posideios II (Maroneia) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
13.76 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 330

Provenience: Chandon de Briailles 330

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 151.2,Paris

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 135, nr. 151.2, pl. 8, pic. 151/2  ❐

Literature

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 66, nr. 21Ab, pic. 8 ❐

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. 151 ❐

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 2572, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2572 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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