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Triobol - Molpoos
| Issuer | Maroneia |
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| Year | 398 BC - 385 BC |
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| Weight | 2.72 g |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a prancing horse facing right, rendered in bold relief with pronounced musculature and mane detail. The letters MOΛ appear to the upper left of the horse, with ΠO positioned to the right, identifying the issuing magistrate Molpoos. The design occupies the full flan in the vigorous, naturalistic style characteristic of Thracian coinage of the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Maroneia, a Thracian coastal colony founded by settlers from Chios, built much of its early wealth on wine — the city's vintages were famous enough to appear in ancient literary sources, including a passage in the Odyssey that some ancient readers identified as a direct reference to Maroneian stock. The magistrate name Molpoos appearing on this issue places it within a civic coinage tradition where annually rotating officials stamped their names as a form of administrative accountability rather than personal commemoration.
The Schönert-Geiss typology for Maroneian silver remains the standard reference, with Copenhagen 618 confirming die linkages across the 303–332 range that suggest concentrated production within a relatively short window.