MK-B | Maroneia ca. 520-510/505 v. Chr.

Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, 18235049. Photographs by Reinhard Saczewski.

Maroneia ca. 520-510/505 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	Vorderteil eines Pferdes nach r.
Reverse	Unregelmäßiges Quadratum Incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 520-510/505 v. Chr. Archaic
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 9,56 g; 19 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Maroneia
Region	Thracia
Country	Greece
Publications	Beschreibung (1888) 175 Nr. 2 (dieses Stück); E. Schönert-Geiss, Die Münzprägung von Maroneia (1987) 3. 119 Nr. 1 Taf. 1 (dieses Stück, 520-505 v. Chr.).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1875 Prokesch-Osten
previous Owner	Count Anton Prokesch von Osten
Object number	18235049
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