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cn coin 5268

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CN Type 908 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0394_V6 🔍
Design
Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0394_R8 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑ-ΡΩΝΙΤ-ΕΩΝ ΕΠ-Ι ΗΡΟΦΙΛ-ΟΥ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; in left field, one rosette; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herophilos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
14.87 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Leake

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 394.3, SNGFitz

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 152, nr. 394.3 

Leake, Numismata Hellenica : A Catalogue of Greek Coins, London 1854 p. 10 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 116, nr. 67a, pl. 12 

British Academy, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : [England] / The British Academy Vol. 4: Fitzwilliam Museum: Leake and general collections, London 1972 p. 30, nr. 1731 

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

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 152, nr. 394-398 (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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cn coin 5268, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5268 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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