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cn coin 16974

Connected to Type

CN Type 2258 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 189/188-49/45 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus with long curled hair, right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Dionysus standing left, holding bunch of grapes and two spears.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom right) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
15.72 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: BMC 129, 63 Abb.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 198, nr. 1260  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 198, nr. 1260-1264, pl. 63-64 ❐

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cn coin 16974, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_16974 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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