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cn coin 5255

Connected to Type

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_0386_R2 🔍
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
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.82 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18243422

Provenience: 1909/437

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 386.1

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 386.1  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Gustav Philipsen/Kopenhagen 25, München 1909, 1909 pl. 2, pic. 180  ❐

Regling, Mende 34, 1924 p. 32f, nr. 11, annot. 2  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 115, nr. 66a, 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. 386 ❐

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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