Maroneia, bronze (CN type 21605)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 189/88-49/45 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Maroneia in Thrace dated ca. 189/88-49/45 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21605. 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
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 8.39 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/21605
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21605
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Research required
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution