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Triobol
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 377 BC - 365 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a horse prancing to left, rendered in fine archaic style with a boldly modelled mane indicated by hatching along the neck. The Greek letters K and A appear in the left and right fields respectively, serving as magistrate or mint control marks flanking the principal device. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Maroneia, a Thasian colony on the Thracian coast, derived its considerable wealth from two sources: the fertile agricultural plain behind the city and, more significantly, the silver mines of the surrounding region. This made Maroneia one of the more prolific coin-issuing cities in Thrace during the fourth century, competing commercially with the output of Thasos itself. The triobol denomination — a half-drachm — was the practical workhorse of Greek mercantile exchange, useful for transactions too small for a full drachm but too large for bronze.