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cn coin 6972

Connected to Type

CN Type 999 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0505_V43 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩ/ΝΙΤΩΝ
Design
Bridled horse prancing right, loose rein passing over back and trailing below.
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Controlmark
2x Controlmark obverse
Reverse
Die
Mar_0505_R70 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΜΗ/ΤΡΩΝΟΣ
Design
Vine within linear square; in left field, plow; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metron 🔍  

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

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 505.1, Kphgn

Citation

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 143, nr. 134, pl. 15  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 609, pl. 12  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 164, nr. 505.1  ❐

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. 505 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 163-164, nr. 504-506 (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 6972, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6972 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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