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cn coin 2594

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CN Type 848 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0171_V16 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0170_R16 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑ-ΡΩ-ΝΙΤ-ΕΩ-Ν
Design
Vine with six bunches of grapes, three on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
12.66 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 751

Provenience: Fonds général 751

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 171,Paris

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 138, nr. 171, pl. 9, pic. 171  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 390, nr. 172, pl. 48, pic. 5  ❐

Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche ossia descrizione di alcune medaglie rare del Museo Ducale di Gotha relativamente alla collezione di Petriccioli con la continuazione di altre medaglie del Museo Nazionale di Francia, Berlino 1806 nr. 76  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1471, pl. 341, pic. 13  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 80, nr. 64  ❐

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. 171 ❐

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 2594, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2594 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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