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cn coin 5951

Connected to Type

CN Type 2295 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

1. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_1516z_V5z 🔍
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_1516z_R6z 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse 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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Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: denomination B 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17.5 mm
Weight
5.50 g
Axis
1
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 887

Citation

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 887, pl. 37, pic. 887  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 646 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 207, nr. 1516, pl. 82, pic. 1516 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 78-82 ❐

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 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 207-208, nr. 1513-1526 ❐

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