Maroneia
ca. 386/385-348/347 v. Chr.
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Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault |
Obverse |
Gezäumtes Pferd mit losem Zügel nach l. |
Reverse |
ΜΑΡΩ-ΝΙΤΩΝ - ΕΠΙ Α-ΘΗΝΕΩ. Weinstock mit vier Trauben im Linienquadrat, darum Ethnikon und Beamtenname. Das Ganze in vertieftem Quadratum Incusum. |
Date |
ca. 386/385-348/347 v. Chr. Classical |
Denomination |
Stater StaterLiterally 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. |
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Silver ; 10,28 g; 24 mm; 30 h |
Publications |
A. B. West, Fifth and Fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian Coast, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs 40 (1929) 138 Nr. 76 a Taf. 13 (dieses Stück); E. Schönert-Geiss, Die Münzprägung von Maroneia (1987) 39 f. 154 Nr. 411,1 (dieses Stück, ca. 386/385-348/347 v. Chr.). |
Department |
Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods |