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Stater - Ikesio...
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 365 BC - 330 BC |
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| Value | 2 Siglos |
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| Obverse lettering | ΜΑΡΩ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maroneia, a Thasian colony on the Thracian coast, built its wealth almost entirely on wine — the city's vintages were famous enough to appear in ancient literary sources, including a passage in the Odyssey that some scholars identify as a direct reference to Maroneian stock. The polis leveraged that agricultural surplus into a prolific silver coinage during the fourth century, drawing on access to Thracian mining regions that made the northern Aegean one of the most coin-productive zones in the Greek world.
The Schönert-Geiss corpus remains the definitive reference for Maroneian issues; her die study identified significant variety within this period's output, and the Lockett and Pozzi collection appearances confirm this type's pedigree in serious classical numismatic circles.