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cn coin 6556

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CN Type 2390 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 240/239-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0945_V2 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0944_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΑΡΩΝ-ΙΤΩΝ Ε-ΠΙ ΠΥΘ-ΟΝΙΚΟ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch within dotted linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pythonikos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: denomination A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
6.03 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18243530

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Whittal

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 945, Berlin

Public Commentary

Nach Psoma früher zu datieren, um 330 v. Chr. By S. Psoma datet to the 330s BC.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 181, nr. 945, pl. 36, pic. 945  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 p. 946, nr. 1488  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 183, nr. 71  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 181, nr. 944-951 ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 26f., nr. PM64-PM67 (c. 330 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 6556, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6556 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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