Maroneia, tetradrachm (CN type 2134)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
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 2134. 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
- 32 mm (from 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/2134
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2134
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Research required
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 185, nr. 1017
Research required
- Weight not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution