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Stater - Ikesio...
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 365 BC - 330 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maroneia, a Thasian colony on the Thracian coast, derived enormous wealth from its vineyards and the silver mines of the surrounding region, which funded an ambitious and long-running coinage program through the fourth century. The city navigated a particularly precarious stretch of history during this issue's probable production window — caught between Macedonian expansion under Philip II and the residual power of local Thracian dynasts, it nonetheless maintained monetary independence longer than many neighboring poleis.
The Schönert-Geiss corpus remains the definitive reference for Maronitan coinage, and the 420–421 grouping represents a well-documented die linkage within the broader Ikesio- magistrate series.