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cn coin 8859

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CN Type 2107 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Design
Horse prancing left.
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Reverse
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ΕΠΙ ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Zenon (Maroneia) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 22.5 mm
Weight
11.01 g
Owner

Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, hu ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: Budapest

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: MAR_2R_67_090o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 160, nr. 478.1  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 145, nr. 158b  ❐

Brüder Egger, Auktionskatalog 45, Wien 1913 nr. 452, pl. 14  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 160-161, nr. 477-482 (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 8859, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8859 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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