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cn coin 5259

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CN Type 879 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0388_V2 🔍
Design
Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0387_R3 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡΩΝΙ-ΤΕΩΝ Ε-ΠΙ ΘΕΟΔ-ΟΤΟ
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
Max: 25.5 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
16.58 g
Owner

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Parma, Parma, it

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1839

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 388, Parma

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 151, nr. 388, pl. 18, pic. 388  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Maroneia und die Thraker-Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Polis und Hinterland 22, 1985 , pic. 8  ❐

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. 388 ❐

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 5259, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5259 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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