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cn coin 7591

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CN Type 2304 🔍

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
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Legend reverse 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 B 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 17 mm
Weight
6.98 g
Axis
12
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 995; (30.09.2004)

Literature

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

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 645-646 ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 nr. 3981-3982 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3942 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 207-211, nr. 155-1639 ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 888-891 ❐

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, nr. PM84-86 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 209-211, nr. 1556-1639, pl. 83-86 ❐

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cn coin 7591, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7591 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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