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cn coin 2590

Connected to Type

CN Type 848 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-377 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0167_V12 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0167_R13 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡ-ΕΩΝ-ΙΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; in left field, two dots; all within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
12.95 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 167,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 167, pl. 9, pic. 167  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 234, nr. 14β  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 80, nr. 61, pl. 11  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Maroneia und die Thraker-Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Polis und Hinterland 22, 1985 , pic. 14  ❐

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. 167 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137-138, nr. 166-172 (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 2590, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2590 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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