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The Ancient Coinage of Maroneia

Listed by Moushmov Number

Including additional items for this online edition, with numbers in italics.
MARONEIA
(500 – 350 B.C.) now Maronia, along the White sea.
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Autonomous coins.

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Silver, period I.

3890 MAP. Bust of lieing horse left. Rev. : A. Head of a ram right within concave square. 17 mm.
3891 Bust of a horse right; in the margin the letters: A X Π. Rev. : MA EΠI. Bunch of grapes within concave square. 15 mm.
3892 Bust of a horse left and MA. Rev. : The same. In the margin rhyton (cup). 15 mm.
3893 The same front part with E Y Π or M H or without letters. Rev. : MA. Vine with bunch of grapes. 15 mm. Plate XXIV 7.
3894 Bust of a horse left and N P. Rev. : MAPΩNI. Vine with bunch of grapes. 15 mm. Plate XXIV 7.
3895 The same front part. Rev. : EΠI AΘHNEΩ. Bunch of grapes within square made of marguerites. 15 mm.
3896 MAPΩ. Bust of a horse right. Rev. : EΠI APIΣTOΛEΩ. Bunch of grapes within grain-square. 17 mm. Plate XXIV 8.
3897 Horse galloping left. Rev. : EΠI…KΛEΩ. Vine with 4 bunch of grapes within square. 26 mm. Plate XXIII 11.
3898 MAPΩ or MA. Bust of a horse right. Rev. : EΠI NOYMHNIOY. Bunch of grapes within grain-square. 15 mm. Plate XXIV 4.
3899 Dionysos’s head with ivy-wreath left. Rev. : MAPΩNITΩN EΠI AΘHNEΩ. Vine with bunches of grapes within square. All within concave square . 25 mm. Plate XXIII 5.
3900 The same front part. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN EΠI MHTP…NEOΣ. The same image. 23 mm.
3901 Horse galloping left; hound below. Rev. : EΠI KAΛΛIKPATEOΣ. The same image. 23 mm.
3902 The same front part. Rev. : EΠI NEOMHNIO. The same image. 27 mm.
3903 Horse galloping left; flower above. Rev. : EΠI ΠOΛYAPHTOY. The same image; in the margin – tortoise. 25 mm.
3904 The same front part. Rev. : ΠATPOKΛEΩN. The same image without tortoise. 22 mm.
3905 Horse galloping left. Rev. : EΠI XOPHΓO. Vine with bunches of grapes and fly within concave square. 25 mm. Plate XXIV 1.
3906 Horse galloping right; wheel above. Rev. : MHTPOΦΩN. Vine with bunches of grapes within concave square. 20 mm. Plate XXIII 10.
3907 MAPΩ. Horse galloping left. Rev. : EΠI IKEΣIO. The same image; in the margin – caduceus. 25 mm.
3908 The same front part. Rev. : MAPΩNITEΩN. Vine with bunches of grapes within square. 25 mm.
3909 Horse galloping right. Rev. : EΠI BOYT… Vine with bunches of grapes within square made of lines and on side – cup and thyrsos. 20 mm.
3910 MAP. Bust of a horse left. Rev. : Rosette within concave square. 15 mm. Plate XXIV 5.
3911 MAPΩNOΣ (must read inverted). The same image. Rev. : Head of a ram within concave square, decorates with marguerites. 21 mm.
3912 Horse galloping left; under the horse – Λ and trident. Rev. : EΠI MAPΩNOΣ. Vine with 4 bunches of grapes within square made of lines. 27 mm.
3913 Horse galloping left; above – bearded head. Rev. : MHTPOΔOTOΣ. Vine with bunches of grapes within square. 23 mm. Plate XXIII 4.
3914 Horse galloping left; above – thunderbolt. Rev. : EΠI ATPOKΛEOΣ. Vine with bunches of grapes within square and all within concave square. 27 mm.
3915 MAP . Bust of a horse right. Rev. : EΠI HPAKΛEIΔEΩ. Bunch of grapes within square. 15 mm. Plate XXII 23.
3916 EΠI ΠOΣ… The same bust. Rev. : Bunch of grapes within square. 15 mm.
3817 EYΠ. Bust of a horse. Rev. : MA. Bunch of grapes within concave square. 15 mm.
3918 Bust of a horse left. Rev. : ΠOΣEIΔIΠΠOΣ. Vine with bunches of grapes within square made of lines. 27 mm.
3919 Bust of a horse. Rev. : MA or MA EΠI. Vine with bunches of grapes and cup with 2 handles within concave square. 13 mm.
3920 Horse galloping left. Rev. : EΠI ΠYΘOΔΩPO. Vine with bunches of grapes within concave square. 26 mm.
3921 Horse galloping right; above – bloomed flower and below – MAPO …? Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. 25 mm. Table LII 9.
3922 Bust of a horse galloping right; the body is decorated with marguerite. Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. 22 mm. Table LII 10.
3923 Bust of a horse galloping left. Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. 16 mm.
3924 Head of a horse right. Rev. : The same. 7 mm. Table LII 15.
3925 EΠ APXEMBPOTO. Bust of a horse galloping left. Rev. : The same. 18x21 mm. Table LII 11.
3926 MA or MAPΩ. Bust of a horse galloping left. Rev. : Rosette within concave square. 20 – 18 mm. Table LII 12.
3927 MAP. The same image. Rev. : The letters I T H M within concave square divided into 4 parts. 12 mm. Table LII 13.
3928 MAP. The same bust of a horse. Rev. : Head of a ram within concave square. 11x15 mm. Table LII14.
3929 MAPΩ – NOΣ (must read inverted). The same bust of a horse. Rev. : Head of a ram right within concave square.. 15x17 mm. Table LII 16.
3930 Bust of a horse left. Rev. : MAPΩNITΩN. Within concave square. 20 mm. Plate XXIV 3.
3931 Y Δ. Bust of a horse right. Rev. : Λ Μ. Vine with bunch of grapes. 15 mm.
3932 Head of a horse, right. Rev. : Goat kneeling on its forelegs within concave square. 9 mm. Plate XXII 24.
3933 Horse galloping left. In the margin – helmeted, bearded head left. Rev. : EΠI ΠOΣIΔHIO. Vine with bunches of grapes within concave square. 27 mm. Plate XXIII 2 and 7.
3934 MAPΩ. Horse advancing left. In the margin – cup with 2 handles. Rev. : ΔEONYΣ around square with vine with bunches of grapes. All in concave square. 25 mm.
3935 MAPΩN. Horse galloping left, above – cup with 2 handles. Rev. : MHTPOΔOTOΣ. Vine with bunches of grapes. All in concave square. 25 mm. Plate XXIII 8.
3936 Horse galloping left, above – Apollo’s head. Rev. : The same. 24 mm.
3937 MAPΩ. Horse galloping left. Rev. : EΠI IKEΣIO. Vine with bunches of grapes within concave square. In the margi – caduceus. 22 mm. Plate XXIV 2.

Thrace, Maroneia AR Tetradrachm. ca 386/5-348/7 BC. Hikesio, magistrate. MARW, horse rearing left, trailing rein / EPI IKE-SIO, grape arbor in linear square; caduceus to left; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss 424, BMC 24, SNGCop604.
3938 Horse galloping left; sometimes MA . Rev. : EΠI╪HNΩNOΣ. Vine with bunches of grapes within concave square. 22 mm. Plate XXII 9 and 12.
3939 MAPΩN. Horse galloping left, above – cup with 2 handles. Rev. : EΠI MHTPOΔOTO. Vine with 4 bunches of grapes within concave square. 27 mm. Plate XXIII 6.
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Silver, period II.

3940 Dionysos’s head with ivy-wreath, right. Rev. : ΔIONYΣOY ΣΩTHPOΣ MAPΩNITΩN. Dionysos naked standing, holding in right hand bunch of grapes, and in the left hand – two arrows and his dress. In the margin – monograms. Plate XXIII 3.
Maroneia, Thrace, AR tetradrachm. ca 130 BC, Head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy / DIONUSOU SWTHPOS MARWNITWN, Dionysos standing left, holding grapes, monograms in fields.
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Bronze.

3941 Dionysos’s head with ivy-wreath, right. Rev. : ΔIONYΣOY ΣΩTHPOΣ MAPΩNITΩN. Dionysos standing, holding bunch of grapes and two arrows. In the margin – monogram. Plate XXII 16.
3942 The same front part. Rev. : MAPΩNITΩN. Dionysos standing, holding bunch of grapes and sceptre or two arrows; monogram. Plate XXII 19.
Thrace, Maroneia AE20mm. Head of Dionysos, wreathed in ivy / MARWNITWN, Dionysos standing left holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos.
3943 Apollo’s head right. Rev. : MAPΩNITΩN. Aesklepios standing with serpent entwined staff. Monogram.
3944 Horse galloping right, monogram below. Rev. : MAPΩNITΩN. Vine with 4 bunches of grapes. All in square; sometimes monogram. Plate XXII 22.
3945 ΔIONYΣOY ΣΩTHPOΣ. Dionysos’s head. Rev. : MAPΩNITΩN. Dionysos in chariot pulled from goat and panther; behind the chariot – peacock advancing.
3946 Dionysos’s head with ivy-wreath, right. Rev. : ΔIONYΣOY ΣΩTHPOΣ MAPΩNITΩN. Dionysos standing, holding bunch of grapes and sceptre; in the margin ΔY or monogram.
Thrace, Maroneia AE25. After 148 BC. Head of Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy. / Dionysos standing left, holding grapes.
3947 Horse galloping right. Rev. : Vine-leaf.
3948 Apollo’s head right. Rev. : Vine-leaf and monogram.
3949 Dionysos’s head with ivy-wreath, opposite. Rev. : MAP. Bunch of grapes and barley-grain.
3950 The legend is erased. Two-pointed hatchet. Rev. : Bunch of grapes.
3951 KO AM… Two-pointed hatchet and caduceus above. Rev. : EΠI ΔHM…O. vine with 5 bunches of grapes within grain-square.
3952 Dionysos’s head with ivy-wreath, right. Rev. : AΛΩ. Cup with two handles and in the margin – bunch of grapes.
3953 Demeter’s head with wreath of ears, right. Rev. : Horse galloping right.
3954 Apollo’s laureate head right. Rev. : MA. Vine with bunch of grapes. Plate XXII 20.
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Alexander the Great (336 – 323 B.C.)

Gold.

3955 Athena’s helmeted head right. Rev. : AΛEΞANΔPOY. Nike standing left, holding in right hand wreath, and in the left hand – spear or trophy. In the margin – bunch of grapes. 19 mm.

Silver.

3956 Herakles’s head with lion’s skin, right. Rev. : BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY or only AΛEΞANΔPOY. Zeus orlonosets , half-naked seated on a throne left, holding in right hand eagle, and in the left hand – sceptre. In the margin bunch of grapes and sometimes ΣΙΛΗ or ONTIΣ. Monogram. Plate XXIII 1.
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Lysimachus (323 – 381 B.C.)

3957 King’s head decorated with diadem and horn of a ram. Rev. : BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY. Athena victorious seated on a throne left, holding in right hand Nike, resting with the left hand on shield; in front of the throne – bunch of grapes and monograms.
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Imperial bronze coins.

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Nero (54 – 68 A.D.) NERΩN KAICAP. His head. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN. - MAPΩNITΩN.

3958 Dionysos’s bust right.
3959 Minerva with helmet standing, holding Nike and spear.
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Hadrian (117 – 138 A.D.)

Obv: AΔPIANOC KAICAP.
- AY AΔPIANOC AΔPEINOC. His head or bust.
Rev: MAPΩNEITΩN.
3960 Capricorn and cornucopiae. Plate XXII 18.
3961 Capricorn right; above – cornucopiae. (Barbarian type). Plate XXII 17.
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Antoninus Pius (138 – 161 A.D.)

3962 AΔPI ANTΩNEINOΣ. His head. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN.
3963 Dionysos naked standing, with cup and thyrsos; panther below. Plate VIII 6.
3964 Dinysos standing, holding bunch of grapes and two spears.
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Julia Domna (wife of S. Sever) IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CЄB. Her head or bust. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN.

3965 Tyche standing with his attributes. Plate X 29.
3966 Dionysos naked standing, holding in right hand bunch of grapes, and in left hand – two arrows; his dress is hanging on the left hand.
Maroneia. Julia Domna Æ23 (3 Assaria). Circa A.D. 198-217. IOYLIA DOMNA CEB, draped bust right / MAPWN EITWN, naked figure of Dionysus standing, facing left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand, arrows & drapery in left.
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Caracalla (198 – 217 A.D.)

Obv: AVT K M AV ANTΩNINOC.
- AVT M AVP ANTΩNINOC. His head or bust.
Rev: MAPΩNEITΩN.
3967 Dionysos naked standing, holding in right hand bunch of grapes, and in the left hand – two arrows; his dress is hanging on the left hand. Plate XXII 21.
3968 Hermes naked standing left with purse and caduceus; rooster below. Plate XI 3.
3969 Hexstyle temple with Dionysos with cup and thyrsos. Plate XI 26 – 30.
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Macrinus (217 – 218 A.D.)

3970 M OΠ CE MAKPEINOC. His head. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN. Tetrastyle temple with Dionysos in short dress, holding cup and thyrsos. Plate XI 26 – 30.
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Severus Alexander (222 – 235 A.D.)

3971 …His head. Rev. : AMΦIΛOXOY MAPΩNEITΩN. Athena with turreted crown on her head seated, holding Nike and spear; next to her – shield.
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Trebonianus Gallus (251 – 253 A.D.)

3972 AYT BIB ΓAΛΛOC. His head. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN. Dionysos naked standing left, holding bunch of grapes and two arrows.
3972AGabled temple with Dionysos within.
Trebonianus Gallus Æ 25mm of Maroneia in Thrace. Laureate head right / Large gabled hexastyle temple, containing a statue of Dionysos, holding thyrsos & patera.
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Volusian (251 – 253 A.D.)

3973 AYT BIB OYOΛΛЄCTIANOC. ( sic ) His bust. Rev. : MAPΩNEITΩN. Dionysos naked standing left, in right hand holding bunch of grapes and in the left – two arrows and his dress. Medal.
Volusian Æ 29mm of Maroneia in Thrace. AYT BIB OVOLLECTIANOC, Laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / MARWNEITWN, Dionysos standing left with bunch of grapes & thyrsos. BMC 90, SNG Cop 651.
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