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A holed silver hemidrachm of Maroneia showing a horse protome and grapes Coin Type: Holed silver hemidrachm (or quarter stater, c.f. Sear) of Maroneia in Thrace, 385-347 BCE. Magistrate Noumenios.
Size and Weight: 16mm, 2.25g
Obverse: Prancing horse protome right.
M - A / P - Ω around.
Reverse: Bunch of grapes on a length of stem, one tendril to the right, within a dotted linear square.
EΠI - NOY - MH - NIOY around.
Provenance: cameleoncoins (eBay), October 2010
Ref: GCV 1633 var (Magistrate); Schönert-Geiss 582.
BW Ref: 006 051 164
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