cn coin 5269

Forgery

According to information from Paris Import, a forgery

Connected to types 908 🔍

• side: both
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Mint

Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

365-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Die

Mar_0398_V10 🔍

Design

Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Die

Mar_0397_R9 🔍

Legend

ΜΑ-ΡΩΝΙΤ-ΕΩΝ ΕΠ-Ι ΗΡΟΦΙΛ-ΟΥ

Design

Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; in left field, one rosette; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herophilos 🔍  

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic

Material

silver 🔍  

Diameter

Max: 25 mm / Min: 23 mm

Weight

17.10 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 774

Provenience: Faux; Fonds général 774

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 398.1, Paris

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 152, nr. 398.1, pl. 18, pic. 398/1  (on the original type)  ❐

Kinns, The Caprara forgeries, London 1984 p. 15, nr. 6  ❐

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 (on the dating of the original type)  ❐

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cn coin 5269, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5269 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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