v36_0075 - THRACE - MARONEIA Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 398/397-347/346 AC.
Mint name / Town : Maronée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 10,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau cheval. Revers bien venu à la frappe de très joli style. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cheval libre galopant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Quatre grappes de raisin sur un cep de vigne dans un carré linéaire ; une cigale en fin de légende de revers.
Reverse legend : EPI/ COR/HG/O.
Commentary
Poids léger. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Löbbecke du musée de Berlin (Schönert-Geiss, p. 157, n° 437, pl. 20).
Historical background
THRACE - MARONEIA
(4th century BC)
The name of Maronea, which had been colonized by inhabitants of Chios, comes from Maron, priest of Apollo who gave Ulysses the means to neutralize Polyphemus by making him drunk. Maron is also described as a son of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and drunkenness. Wine and vines were therefore important, hence the representation of Dionysos on the obverse, and the city was renowned for the quality of its wine, which is even mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey. The city itself, ancient Ortagurea, located on the northern shore of Lake Ismaris on the Sthenas River, was close to Dikaia and Abdera also located in Thrace. It received colonists from Chios around 540 BC. It lost its independence definitively when Philip II of Macedonia occupied it..
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