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cn coin 5944

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CN Type 2168 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 189-49 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_1108_V34 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_1108_R120 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand and two spears and chlamys in left arm; in inner left and right field, monograms. Short ground line.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 32 mm
Weight
16.19 g
Axis
1
Owner

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 885

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 190, nr. 1108, pl. 48, pic. 1108  ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. 2. Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 885, pl. 37, pic. 885  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 190, nr. 1108-1110 ❐

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