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cn coin 47737

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CN Type 840 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-377 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Horse prancing left.
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Symbol
star (position: above)
Reverse
Legend
ΠΟΣΙΔΕΟΣ
Design
Vine with bunches of grapes within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Symbol
shield (position: )
Persons

Magistrate: Posideus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.78 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 195, 7.3.2011, lot 108 = Künker 89, 08.03.2004, lot 1152.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 164 (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)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 47737, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47737 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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