cn coin 5387
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cn coin 5387

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CN Type 941 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0428_V11 🔍
Design
Bridled horse prancing left, loose rein passing over back and trailing below.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0427_R16 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΑΠΕ-ΛΛ-ΕΩ
Design
Vine with five bunches of grapes within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Overstrike
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Persons

Magistrate: Apelles 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
10.30 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 428.3, London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 156, nr. 428.3 

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 125, nr. 20 

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. 140, nr. 102b 

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. 155-156, nr. 427-429 (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 5387, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5387 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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