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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
26 mm
Weight
16.61 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.628

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 386.2

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 386.2, pl. 18, pic. 386/2  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 pl. 12, pic. 495  ❐

Anson, Numismata Graeca. Greek coin-types classified for immediate identification, 6 Teile., London 1910 pl. 13, pic. 528  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1466, pl. 341, pic. 8  ❐

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

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 881  ❐

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 ❐

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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