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cn coin 6987

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CN Type 1012 🔍

Mint
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_0513_R7 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΟΣ-ΙΔΕ-ΙΟΥ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch within dotted linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Posideios I (Maroneia) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15.5 mm
Weight
2.34 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 513.2, Cambridge

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 165, nr. 513.2  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 nr. 3969, pl. 144, pic. 20  ❐

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. 513 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 165, nr. 511-513 (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 6987, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6987 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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