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cn coin 6956

Connected to Type

CN Type 979 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0491_V35 🔍
Design
Bridled horse prancing left, loose rein passing over back and trailing below;  under forpaws, maltese dog.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0491_R60 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Κ-ΑΛΛ-ΙΚΡΑ-ΤΕΟΣ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kallikrates 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
11.21 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Lambros

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 491.2, London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 162, nr. 491.2, pl. 23, pic. 491/2  ❐

Casson, Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria, [London] 1926 , pic. 14c  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 139, nr. 88  ❐

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. 491 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 161-162, nr. 487-491 (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 6956, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6956 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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