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cn coin 5607

Connected to Type

CN Type 787 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0120_V24 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩΝ/ΕΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, laurel wreath. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0120_R33 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤ-ΡΟ-ΔΟ-ΤΟ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
14.12 g
Axis
8
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235221

Provenience: 1873 Fox

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 131, nr. 120.1  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 p. 932, nr. 1455  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 179, nr. 29, pl. 5, pic. 50  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 63, nr. 26a, pl. 9  ❐

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, nr. 120 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 131-132, nr. 116-121 (Reduced thraco-macedonian standard, 436/35-411/10 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. 167 (Reduced chian standard, 430-400 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 5607, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5607 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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