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cn coin 5254

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CN Type 879 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0385_V1 🔍
Design
Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0385_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡΩΝΙ-ΤΕΩΝ ΕΠ-Ι ΘΕΟΔΟΤ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine within square border; to right, thyrsus; all within shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Theodotos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
Diameter
Max: 25.5 mm / Min: 24.5 mm
Weight
13.85 g
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Empedokles

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 385, Athen

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 385, pl. 18, pic. 385 

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 90, pic. 2331 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 115, nr. 65, pl. 12 

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. 173, nr. 385

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 385-388 (Persian standard, tridrachm, c. 386/85-348/47 BC.) 

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 172f. (Reduced attic standard, tetradrachm, c. 365-330 BC.) 

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cn coin 5254, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5254 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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