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CN Type 1368 🔍

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Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 100-200 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Draped bust of Dionysus, right; two spears and garment over left shoulder.
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Symbol
grape (position: top right)
Reverse
Legend
ΜΑΡΩΝΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: Dionysus/grape-series 🔍
Material
Diameter
17.5 mm
Weight
3.53 g
Owner

Plazzo Madama, Museo Civico di Torino, Museo Civico di Numismatica, Etnografia, Arte Orientali, Turin, it

Owner Inventory No.: S. A. 24 559

Public Commentary

Selene Psoma deutet das Vorderseitenbild als den mythischen Stadtgründer Maron und datiert ins 1. Jh. v. Chr. Selene Psoma interprets the obverse motif as the mythical city founder Maron and dates the coin to the 1st century BC.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 220, nr. 1740 

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 220, nr. 1737-1740

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 30.77.149, nr. PM89.M154.155 (Psoma is dating this type to the late 1st c. BC and is interpreting the bust on the obverse as Maron.) 

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cn coin 20950, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20950 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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