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cn coin 5589

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CN Type 558 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-430 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0052_V8 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑ-Ρ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0054_R12 🔍
Design
Ram's head, right, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.77 g
Axis
5
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235103

Provenience: 1873 Gansauge

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125, nr. 54.1, pl. 3, pic. 54/1  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1788  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 176, 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. 166, nr. 54 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125-126, nr. 54-55; 67 (Thraco-macedonian standard, IIIrd weight series, 495/90-449/48 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. 166 (Reduced chian standard, 450-430 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 5589, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5589 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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