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cn coin 5261

Connected to Type

CN Type 884 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0389_V3 🔍
Design
Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0389_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡΩΝΙ-ΤΕΩΝ ΕΠ-Ι ΜΗΤΡΟ-ΦΑΝΕΟΣ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, growing out of the head of a silen, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrophanes (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
16.20 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18243421

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 389.2, Imh.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 389.2, pl. 18, pic. 389/2  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Griechische Münzen in dem königlichen Münzkabinet im Haag und in den anderen Sammlungen. 3, 1876 p. 286, nr. 30, pl. 6, pic. 18  ❐

Wroth, Select Greek Coins in the British Museum., 1888 p. 4, nr. 4  ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 nr. 250  ❐

Regling, Mende 34, 1924 p. 32, nr. 3, annot. 2  ❐

Münsterberg, Die Beamtennamen auf den griechischen Münzen: geographisch und alphabetisch geordnet ; 3 Teile u. Nachtr. in e. Bd., 1973 nr. 94  ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 pl. 34, pic. 704  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1469, pl. 341, pic. 11  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 116, nr. 69a, pl. 12  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Monetosečeneto na Maroneja 16/4, 1982 p. 5, nr. 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. 389 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 389-390 (Persian standard, tridrachm, c. 386/85-348/47 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. 172f. (Reduced attic standard, tetradrachm, c. 365-330 BC.)  ❐

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