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cn coin 6889

Connected to Type

CN Type 946 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0454_V22 🔍
Design
Bridled horse prancing left, loose rein passing over back and trailing below; under forpaws, trident head.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0454_R34 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΟΛ-ΥΝΙ-ΚΟΥ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Polynikos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 25 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
11.22 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 454.7, London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 158, nr. 454.7  ❐

Sotheby, Catalogue of the Bunbury collection of Greek coins = Auktionskatalog Sotheby, London Juni 1896, London 1896 nr. 592  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 p. 144, nr. 141  ❐

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. 454 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 158, nr. 454-458 (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 6889, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6889 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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