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Drachm
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 495 BC - 448 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A ram's head facing left in high relief, set within a recessed incuse square formed by a double border of raised dots or beading. The fleece is rendered with careful attention to texture, depicting tightly curled wool across the head and neck. The incuse technique is characteristic of early Greek coinage of the Thraco-Macedonian region. The field within the square is otherwise plain, with no additional legend or symbol. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maroneia, a Thracian coastal colony founded by settlers from Chios, derived its wealth almost entirely from its vineyards — a fact that shaped its monetary output for generations. The city sat along a stretch of coast giving it direct access to Aegean trade routes, and its silver coinage circulated widely among Thracian markets and Greek merchants alike during the fifth century.
The Schönert-Geiss corpus, compiled by Edith Schönert-Geiss in her 1987 study of Maronite coinage, remains the definitive reference for this series. Type 67 falls within the earlier strata of the city's drachm production, predating the disruptions caused by Athenian expansionism into the northern Aegean under the Delian League.