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cn coin 5948

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CN Type 2289 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

1. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_1444_V35 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing taenia and ivy wreath with five leaves and two rosettes. Hair dress rolled in the back and with two curls falling on his back.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_1446_R81z 🔍
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
Maroneia: Dionysos series A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 27 mm
Weight
15.74 g
Axis
1
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 886

Citation

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 886, pl. 37, pic. 886  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 206, nr. 1475, pl. 79, pic. 1475 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 644 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 204-207, nr. 1434-1503, pl. 77-81 ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 29.74-75, nr. M129-133 (1st c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 5948, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5948 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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