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Tetradrachm - Metrodotos
| Issuer | Maroneia (Thrace) |
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| Year | 430 BC - 400 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Within a shallow incuse square, a central linear square frames a fruiting grapevine with pendant bunches of grapes and spreading tendrils, emblematic of Maroneia's celebrated wine trade and its Dionysiac civic identity. The design is boldly geometric, with the vine filling the interior of the frame in an organized yet naturalistic manner. The incuse technique is characteristic of early Thracian silver coinage and serves to anchor the design within the broad, irregular flan. The magistrate's name appears as a Greek inscription within or adjacent to the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΗΤΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ |
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Maroneia was one of the more productive Thasian-influenced mints on the Thracian coast, and the magistrate name Metrodotos places this issue within a sequence of named-official coinage that helps scholars reconstruct the city's administrative chronology in the late fifth century. The inclusion of a magistrate's name at this early date is itself unusual for the region — most contemporaries issued anonymously.
The Schönert-Geiss corpus remains the definitive reference for Maronitan coinage, and the narrow die-linkage range across nos. 123–125 suggests a short, concentrated emission rather than a sustained series.