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cn coin 5372

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CN Type 940 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0422_V8 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩ
Design
Bridled horse prancing left.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0423_R13 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΙΚΕ-ΣΙΟ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; in left field, caduceus upwards; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hikesios (Maroneia) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
10.98 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 423.3,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 155, nr. 423.3, pl. 19, pic. 423/3 

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 126, nr. 24 

Head, A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients, from circ. BC 700 to AD 1, London 1881 p. 42, nr. 5, pl. 21 

Head, Historia Numorum, Chicago 1967 p. 250, pic. 157 

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

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 p. 1476 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 139, nr. 94b 

Seltman, Greek coins: A history of metallic currency and coinage down to the fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms., London: Methuen 1955 p. 144, pl. 29, pic. 2 

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. 179

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 155, nr. 419-426 (Persian standard, stater, 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, distater, c. 365-330 BC.) 

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cn coin 5372, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5372 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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