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cn coin 16596

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CN Type 2390 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

280-125 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΠΥΘΟΝΙΚΟ
Design
Bunch of grapes within linear square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: denomination A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17.5 mm
Weight
5.57 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Borrell, NC 1841, 110 Nr. 10; BMC 130, 71

Public Commentary

Nach Psoma früher zu datieren, um 330 v. Chr. By S. Psoma datet to the 330s BC.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 181, nr. 944, pl. 36  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 181, nr. 944-951 ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 26f., nr. PM64-PM67 (c. 330 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 16596, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_16596 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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