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cn coin 5735

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CN Type 1368 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 100-200 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_1737_V1 🔍
Design
Draped bust of Dionysus, right; two spears and garment over left shoulder; in right field grape cluster. Border of dots.
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Symbol
grape (position: top right)
Reverse
Die
Mar_1737_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡΩΝΕ-ΙΤΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to left, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: Dionysus/grape-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
4.92 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18243552

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer

Public Commentary

Selene Psoma deutet das Vorderseitenbild als den mythischen Stadtgründer Maron und datiert ins 1. Jh. v. Chr. Selene Psoma interprets the obverse motif as the mythical city founder Maron and dates the coin to the 1st century BC.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 220, nr. 1737.1, pl. 94, pic. 1737/1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 220, nr. 1737-1740 ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 30.77.149, nr. PM89.M154.155 (Psoma is dating this type to the late 1st c. BC and is interpreting the bust on the obverse as Maron.)  ❐

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cn coin 5735, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5735 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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