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cn coin 5278

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CN Type 913 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0406_V14 🔍
Design
Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0405_R16 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡΩ-ΝΙΤΩΝ - ΕΠΙ Α-ΘΗΝΕΩ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athenes I (Maroneia) 🔍  

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

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

Owner Inventory No.: 772

Provenience: Fonds général 772

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 406.2, Paris

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 153, nr. 406.2, pl. 18, pic. 406/2  ❐

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. 389, nr. 164  ❐

Wroth, Select Greek Coins in the British Museum., 1888 p. 3, nr. 1  ❐

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

Regling, Mende 34, 1924 p. 32f, nr. 7, annot. 2  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 p. 1470, pl. 341, pic. 12  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 117, nr. 15  ❐

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. 153, nr. 405-406 (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 5278, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5278 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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