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cn coin 8700

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CN Type 743 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse Μ-Α-ΡΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above cantharus.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΓΕ-ΝΗ-Σ
Design
Vine with five bunches of grapes, three on left, two on right, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Gene ? 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
14.15 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: NAC Auktion 27, 12.5.2004, lot 160

Reproduction Owner

commerce / im Handel, , []

Literature

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum I/1:The collection of Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M. C. of Northwick Park.The Salting collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1931 p. 4, nr. 104 ❐

Ars Classica, Catalogue de monnaies antiques grecques et romaines, 1933 nr. 1061, pl. 36 ❐

Bank Leu, Antike Münzen: Kelten, Griechen, Römer, Byzantiner: Auktion 7, Mittwoch, den 9. Mai 1973, Zürich 1973 nr. 112, pl. 7+28 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 129, nr. 92 (Reduced thraco-macedonian standard, 436/35-411/10 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. 167 (Reduced chian standard, 430-400 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 8700, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8700 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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