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Maroneia, the Thracian coastal city south of the Hebrus delta, enjoyed an unusually long run of autonomous bronze coinage under Macedonian, and later Roman, hegemony. The extended date range of this type reflects not civic independence so much as Roman tolerance — after Macedon's dissolution in 148 BC, Rome permitted several Thracian poleis to continue local bronze production, largely because small-denomination coinage served practical administrative needs that Rome had little interest in supplying directly. Maroneia's wine trade, which had made the city famous since at least the fifth century, kept it economically relevant well into the late Republic.