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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Maroneia (Thrace) |
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| Year | 189 BC - 45 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Youthful head of Dionysos facing right, his long wavy hair adorned with an elaborate wreath of ivy leaves and berries. The rendering is accomplished in the Hellenistic style, with fine detail given to the flowing locks that fall behind the neck and over the shoulder. The fleshy, idealized facial features are characteristic of late Hellenistic die-cutting from the Thracian mint of Maroneia. No legend appears on the obverse, the field being plain. |
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| Reverse description | Dionysos standing facing, head turned slightly to his right, nude but for a chlamys draped over his left arm and shoulder, holding a bunch of grapes in his lowered right hand and a tall thyrsus in his left. Two cult symbols — a torch and a kantharos on a low table or altar — flank the deity in the lower field. The circular legend ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ to the right and ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΩΝ along the lower border identify the coin as an issue of the Maronitan civic coinage in honor of Dionysos Soter. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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