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Drachm
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 495 BC - 448 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Reverse description | A ram's head facing left, depicted with naturalistically rendered horns and facial features, set at the centre of a recessed incuse square. The design is enclosed within a dotted or beaded inner frame, itself contained within the incuse square, a technique typical of early Thracian coinage. The flat, deeply recessed field surrounding the central device is characteristic of the hammered incuse punch technique employed at this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maroneia, the Thracian coastal city whose vineyards Homer referenced in the Odyssey, struck silver coinage during a period when the region was caught between Athenian commercial expansion and Achaemenid Persian military pressure — Marcia passed under Persian control during Xerxes' westward march and only gradually re-entered the Greek monetary sphere afterward. The city's coinage from this window is consequently sparse, and specimens are rarely encountered outside major auction houses.