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cn coin 2578

Connected to Type

CN Type 2209 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-377 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0159_V5 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0159_R5 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΡ-ΟΒ-ΟΛ-ΟΣ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herobolos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
12.42 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.15720

Provenience: Sammlung Newell

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 159,New York

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 136, nr. 159, pl. 8  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 79, nr. 54, pl. 11  ❐

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. 159 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 136, nr. 159 (Aeginetan standard, 411/10-398/97 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. 171-173 (Reduced chian standard, 400-377 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 2578, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2578 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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