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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 175 BC - 150 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maroneia, a Thracian coastal city, had been minting tetradrachms in its own distinctive civic style for generations by this period, even as Macedonian royal coinage dominated regional trade. These issues served the city's commercial relationships across the northern Aegean — particularly the grain and wine trades for which Thrace was well known in antiquity. The series to which this piece belongs was struck during a window of relative Thracian autonomy, between the collapse of Macedonian royal power after Pydna in 168 BC and Rome's tightening administrative grip on the region.
Schönert-Geiss remains the definitive die study for Maroneian coinage; her numbering system cross-references consistently with the Copenhagen collection, making attribution unusually reliable for a civic Thracian issue.