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cn coin 6940

Connected to Type

CN Type 950 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0465_V26 🔍
Design
Bridled horse prancing left, loose rein passing over back and trailing below; under forpaws, trident head.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0471_R47 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΖΗ-ΝΩ-ΝΟΣ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Zenon (Abdera) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
10.58 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 471.4, McClean

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 160, nr. 471.4  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 nr. 3959, pl. 144, pic. 11  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 145, nr. 152b, pl. 15, pic. 150d  ❐

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. 471 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 160, nr. 468-476 (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 6940, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6940 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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