Tuesday, October 04, 2022
A Coin from Maroneia, Thrace
My son used to give me a Greek or Roman coin as a birthday present, which he purchased from Guy Clark's bargain bin. One of these coins is from Maroneia in Thrace, which looks similar to coin 41799 in Corpus Nummorum Online (2nd-1st century BC), from which I borrowed the following two photographs.
Obverse, showing head of Dionysus facing right, wearing an ivy wreath:
Reverse, showing nude Dionysus facing left, holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and two narthex wands in the other:
To the references (unavailable to me) in Corpus Nummorum Online, add Nikola A. Moushmov, Античните монети на Балкански полуостров = Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula (Sofia, 1912), p. 220, number 3942, with Plate XXII, number 19:
Add also Melih Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien. Aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021), pp. 38-39, numbers 240-261.
Maroneia was named after Dionysus' son Maron, on whom see W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Bd. 2, Abt. 2: Laas-Myton (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1894-1897), cols. 2382-2384.
Map detail showing Maroneia, from Richard J.A. Talbert, ed., Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Vol. 2 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), Map 51 (almost due north of the island of Samothrace on the full map):
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Obverse, showing head of Dionysus facing right, wearing an ivy wreath:
Maroneia was named after Dionysus' son Maron, on whom see W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Bd. 2, Abt. 2: Laas-Myton (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1894-1897), cols. 2382-2384.
Map detail showing Maroneia, from Richard J.A. Talbert, ed., Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Vol. 2 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), Map 51 (almost due north of the island of Samothrace on the full map):
