Maroneia in Thrace 400BC Ancient Greek Coin Horse monogram Vine i31368
Maroneia in Thrace 400BC Ancient Greek Coin Horse monogram Vine i31368

Maroneia in Thrace 400BC Ancient Greek Coin Horse monogram Vine i31368

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Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Greek city of Maroneia in Thrace
Bronze 13mm (3.21 gm.) Struck 400-350 B.C.
Reference: Sear 1636; B.M.C. 3.65
Horse prancing right; monogram beneath.
ΜΑΡΩ�ΙΤΩ� around three sides of linear square containing vine; monogram beneath.

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Authenticity.

 

Maroneia (Greek:

Μα�ώνεια) is a municipality in the

Rhodope Prefecture

,

Greece
.

Population 7,644 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in

Xylagani

.

In legend, it was said to have been founded by Maron, a son

of Dionysus
,

or even a companion of

Osiris
.

According to

Pseudo-Scymnus

it was founded by

Chios
in the

first half of the 6th century BC.

According to

Pliny

, its ancient name was Ortagures.

It was located on the hill of Aghios Gheorgis, and archaeological findings date

it as a much older and as a pure

Thracian

city.

Maroneia was close to the

Ismaros

mentioned by

Homer
in the

Odyssey
.

Some scholars identify Maroneia with his Ismaros.

Homer has Odysseus

plundering the city but sparing Maron, whom he identifies as a

priest of Apollo
.

Maron presents Odysseus with a gift of

wine, as well as

with gold and silver.

In the era of

Ancient Greece

and

Rome
,

Maroneia was famous for its wine production. The wine was esteemed everywhere;

it was said to possess the odor of

nectar
, and to

be capable of mixture with twenty or more times its quantity with water.

That the people of Maroneia venerated

Dionysus
,

we learn not just from its famous Dionysian Sanctuary, the foundations of which

can still be seen today, but also from the city’s coins.

In

200 BC
it was

taken by

Philip V of Macedon

, who vented his rage by slaughtering a great number of

the city’s inhabitants.

The Roman Republic

subsequently granted Maroneia to

Attalus

, King of

Pergamon
,

but almost immediately revoked their gift and declared it a free city.

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