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cn coin 21259

Connected to Type

CN Type 2120 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

189/188-49/45 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand, chlamys and two spears in left arm. Short ground line.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
16.30 g
Axis
12
Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1707 = H 6276

Provenience: Ex Coll. Walter Schmidt

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 184, nr. 995 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 184, nr. 995-1001 ❐

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cn coin 21259, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21259 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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