Tetradrachm

Maroneia, a Thracian coastal city with deep ties to the wine trade, produced this long-running tetradrachm series across nearly a century and a half of Macedonian and later Roman provincial oversight. The type persisted well past most comparable civic coinages in the region, likely because Maroneia retained enough commercial autonomy — and enough traffic through its port — to sustain local silver striking even as neighboring mints fell silent under Roman reorganization after 148 BC.

SNG Copenhagen 640 places this piece within the later phase of the series, when magistrate names began appearing with greater regularity in the coin's inscription field.