cn coin 6876
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cn coin 6876

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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_0440_R26 🔍
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
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
11.06 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us

Owner Inventory No.: 00.187

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 440.2, Boston

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 157, nr. 440.2 

Perkins, Guide to the Catharine Page Perkins collection of Greek and Roman coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1902 nr. 190 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 141, nr. 116 

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 813 

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. 440

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 6876, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6876 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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