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cn coin 52984

Forgery

counterfeiter: Caprara

Is in the fogeries collection in the Berlin Coin Cabinet. 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.

Provenience: Pozzi 106 (nicht im Katalog)

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.)  ❐

Svoronos, unknown 3, 1889 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 52984, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52984 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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