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cn coin 7590

Connected to Type

CN Type 2289 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

1. c. 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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
Maroneia: Dionysos series A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.4 mm / Min: 23.4 mm
Weight
10.72 g
Axis
1
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 4769

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 ❐

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 7590, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7590 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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