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cn coin 8798

Connected to Type

CN Type 841 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-377 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Horse prancing left; above, scorpion.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤΡΟΦΑΝΗΣ
Design
Vine with bunches of grapes within linear square, surrounded by magsitrate's name, astragalus; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrophanes (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23.6 mm
Weight
12.23 g
Axis
8
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 34982

Provenience: Egger 39, 1912, Taf. 5, 152; Gerasimova-Tomova 39, 33

Findspot

Thracia, gr [gr] ❐

Public Commentary

Ob auf der Vorderseite tatsächlich ein Skorpion gezeigt ist, ist unklar. Eventuell identisch mit Typ ohne Skorpion. It is unclear whether a scorpion is actually shown on the obverse. Possibly identical to the type without a scorpion.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 165  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 79, nr. 58, pl. 11  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 165 (Aeginetan standard, 411/10-398/97 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. 171-173 (Reduced chian standard, 400-377 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 8798, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8798 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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