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cn coin 7589

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 148-45 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
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
Legend
Legend reverse ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand and two spears in left arm. Short ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: Dionysos series A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.7 mm / Min: 24.1 mm
Weight
7.91 g
Axis
12
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 4768

Public Commentary

Monogram unclear. Due to the state of preservation not assignable to a type.

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 nr. 72-74 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 643-644 ❐

Evelpidis, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Grèce Collection Rèna A. Evelpidis. Athènes, Louvain 1970 nr. 970-973 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3941 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 nr. 1354-1511 ❐

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

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cn coin 7589, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7589 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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