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cn coin 6872

Connected to Type

CN Type 945 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0436_V16 🔍
Design
Bridled horse prancing left, loose rein passing over back and trailing below.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0439_R25 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΧΟΡ-ΗΓ-Ο
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; in upper left field, a fly; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Choregos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
21.5 mm
Weight
10.38 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 439, London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 157, nr. 439, pl. 20, pic. 439  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 126, nr. 26  ❐

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

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

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 141, nr. 115  ❐

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. 439 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 156-158, nr. 433-441.443-452 (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 6872, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6872 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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