cn coin 2591
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cn coin 2591

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CN Type 848 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-377 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0168_V13 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0168_R14 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡ-ΕΩΝ-ΙΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
Diameter
Max: 25 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
12.80 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: 168,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 168, pl. 9, pic. 168 

Sotheby, Catalogue of the Bunbury collection of Greek coins = Auktionskatalog Sotheby, London Juni 1896, London 1896 nr. 592 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 80, nr. 62, 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. 168

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 2591, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2591 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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