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Æ11
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A bunch of grapes suspended centrally within a square incuse border, symbolising the renowned wine production of Maroneia in Thrace. The grape cluster is depicted with compact, rounded fruit. The partial ethnic legend ΡΩ appears in the field, with Ρ to the left of the square frame and Ω to the right, representing an abbreviated form of ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ. The overall design is neatly contained within the squared border, a hallmark of Maroneian bronze coinage of this period. |
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Maroneia, a Thracian coastal colony of Chios, built its classical-period wealth almost entirely on wine — the city's vintages were famous enough to appear in ancient literary sources, including a passage in the Odyssey that some ancient geographers took as direct reference to the region. The bronze coinage of this period served local market exchange in a city whose silver issues handled long-distance trade, creating a two-tier monetary system common to prosperous Greek emporia of the northern Aegean.
Schönert-Geiss 365–366 represents an early phase of Maroneitan civic bronze, predating the city's absorption into the orbit of Macedonian power under Philip II.