cn coin 12551

Connected to Type

CN Type 2304 🔍

Mint

Maroneia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

1. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing taenia and ivy wreath with five leaves and two rosettes. Hair dress rolled in the back and with two curls falling on his back.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ

Design

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

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

5.90 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1993.6

Provenience: Fonds général

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. 29, nr. PM84-86 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 209-211, nr. 1556-1639, pl. 83-86 ❐

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cn coin 12551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12551 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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