Stater - Ebesas

Maroneia, the Thracian coastal colony founded by settlers from Chios, built its wealth almost entirely on wine — and its coinage reflects that dependency with unusual consistency across two centuries. The late fifth and early fourth centuries BCE were commercially active ones for the city, as Aegean trade routes kept Maroneian silver in circulation well beyond its immediate region. This stater falls within the magistrate series catalogued by Schönert-Geiss, where individual issuing names appear on the coinage as a mark of civic accountability — Ebesas being one of the less frequently attested names in that sequence, which bears directly on relative scarcity.