Stater

Maroneia, the Thracian coastal city, built its wealth on the vine — its wines were exported across the Aegean and reportedly mentioned by Odysseus in the Odyssey when he speaks of the wine from Ismaros, the same region. The city's silver coinage of this period funded considerable commercial activity along the northern Aegean trade routes, competing directly with the monetary output of Thasos and Amphipolis during decades of shifting Macedonian pressure under Philip II's early campaigns.

BMC Greek 10 places this stater within a well-documented but relatively small series. The silver itself likely derived from Thracian sources rather than Aegean island mines.