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CN Type 908 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 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
Legend reverse 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: 27 mm / Min: 24 mm
Weight
16.50 g
Owner

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Dipartimento del Gabinetto Numismatico, Vatikan, va ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 398,Vatikan

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 152, nr. 398, annot. 4  ❐

Regling, Mende 34, 1924 p. 32f, nr. 9, annot. 2  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 116, nr. 67, pic. 9  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 152, nr. 394-398 (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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