cn coin 52984

Forgery

counterfeiter: Caprara
Is in the fogeries collection in the Berlin Coin Cabinet. This type eventually forged by Caprara and Christodoulos.

Connected to types 908 🔍

• side: both
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Mint

Maroneia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΗΡΟΦΙΛΟΥ

Design

Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Symbol

rosette (position: on the left)

Persons

Magistrate

Herophilos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Owner

Unknown, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Pozzi 106 (nicht im Katalog)

Reproduction Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin [de] ❐

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 152, nr. 398.1, pl. 18, pic. 398/1  (on the original type)  ❐

Kinns, The Caprara forgeries, London 1984 p. 15, nr. 6  (On the forgery.)  ❐

Svoronos, unknown 3, 1889 nr. 42, pl. B  (On the forgery.)  ❐

Literature

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 173 (on the dating of the original type)   ❐

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cn coin 52984, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52984 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/28]

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