cn coin 52981

Forgery

counterfeiter: Caprara

Impression in metal foil filled with wax. Is in the fogeries collection in the Berlin Coin Cabinet, there no further is information provided. This type eventually forged by Caprara and Christodoulos.

Connected to types 908 🔍

side: both
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Mint

Maroneia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΗΡΟΦΙΛΟΥ

Design

Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Symbol

rosette (position: on the left)

Persons

Magistrate: Herophilos 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Attic

Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, [de] ❐

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 (On the forgery.) ❐

Svorōnos, Synopsis de mille coins faux du faussaire C. Christodoulos, Athenes 1922 nr. 42, pl. B (On the forgery.) ❐

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) ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 52981, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52981 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]