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cn coin 5947

Connected to Type

CN Type 2121 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 189-49 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_1004_V12 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_1004_R27 🔍
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)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 36 mm / Min: 35 mm
Weight
16.48 g
Axis
1
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 883

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 185, nr. 1004, pl. 39, pic. 1004  ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 883, pl. 37, pic. 883  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 184-185, nr. 1002-1004 ❐

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