cn coin 21259

Connected to Type

CN Type 2120 🔍

Mint

Maroneia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

189/188-49/45 BC
Hellenistic Period

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.

Reverse

Legend

ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ

Design

Nude Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand, chlamys and two spears in left arm. Short ground line.

Monogram

(position: at the bottom left)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver ❐

Diameter

32 mm

Weight

16.3 g

Axis

12

Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1707 = H 6276
Provenience: Ex Coll. Walter Schmidt

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 184, nr. 995 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 184, nr. 995-1001 ❐

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cn coin 21259, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21259 [Last downloaded: 2022/01/21]

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