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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Maroneia| > GB96080
Maroneia, Thrace, c. 150 - 100 B.C.
|Maroneia|, |Maroneia,| |Thrace,| |c.| |150| |-| |100| |B.C.|, Maroneia was on the Aegean coast about midway between the mouths of the Hebrus and the Nestus rivers. The city was named after Maron, sometimes identified as a son of Dionysos, who in the Odyssey gives Odysseus the wine with which he intoxicates Polyphemos. Maroneia was famous for its wine, which was esteemed everywhere and was said to possess the odor of nectar.
GB96080. Bronze AE 25, Schönert-Geiss Maroneia 1654 (also with male head countermark); SNG Cop 635; BMC Thrace p. 131, 85, VF/aF, green patina, reverse flattening from countermarking, ragged edge, Maroneia (Maroneia-Sapes, Greece) mint, weight 9.442g, maximum diameter 25.3mm, die axis 45o, c. 150 - 100 B.C.; obverse head of young Dionysos right, wearing band across forehead, and ivy wreath; countermarks: (1)bunch of grapes(?) in a round punch, (2) male head (Dionysos?) right in a round punch, (3) uncertain, half off flan; reverse Asklepios standing facing, head left, leaning on snake-entwined staff, monogram left, MAPΩNITΩN downward on right; SOLD




  






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Bernhart, M. "Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen" in JNG I (1949).


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