Maroneia, tetradrachm (CN type 2119)
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 189/88-49/45 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracetetradrachm in silver struck at Maroneia in Thrace dated ca. 189/88-49/45 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 2119. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Dionysus with long curled hair, right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia. Reverse: Nude Dionysus standing left, holding bunch of grapes and two spears.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Recorded diameter
- 34 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 16.67 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Maroneia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- reduced Attic
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Dionysus with long curled hair, right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia.
- Reverse type
- Nude Dionysus standing left, holding bunch of grapes and two spears.
- Reverse legend
- ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2119
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2119
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Research required
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 184, nr. 994
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