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cn coin 2874

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CN Type 863 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 377-365 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0289_V59 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Π-Λ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0289_R78 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch within dotted linear square; in lower left field, rhyton in shape of deer to right; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pl- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13.5 mm
Weight
2.73 g
Axis
9
Owner

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

Provenience: Sammlung Lockett

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 289.2,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 144, nr. 289.2  ❐

Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 35, pic. 1050  ❐

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Lockett Collection 3/2. Sicily-Thrace (Gold and Silver), Oxford 1957 p. 23, nr. 1204  ❐

Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 pl. 5, pic. 1120  ❐

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 pl. 96, pic. 2224  ❐

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. 289 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 143-144, nr. 273-302 (Persian standard, triobol, c. 398/97-386/85 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. 173 (Reduced chian standard, drachm, 377-365 BC.)  ❐

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