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cn coin 6981

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CN Type 1011 🔍

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Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0509_V3 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ-Α-ΡΩ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0510_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ -ΑΘ-ΗΝ-ΕΩ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch within dotted linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athenes I (Maroneia) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.72 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 510.2, Cambridge

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 164, nr. 510.2, pl. 24, pic. 510/2 

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 nr. 3968, pl. 144, pic. 19 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 108, nr. 179a 

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. 510

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 164, nr. 509-510 (Persian standard, triobol, 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, drachm, c. 365-330 BC.) 

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cn coin 6981, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6981 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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