Ancient Greece. Thrace, Dionysos, Maroneia. AR Tetradrachm, c.148-150 BC. 16.45g.
 
Obv: Beautiful head of Dionysos wearing wreath of ivy / vine leaves. Rev: Nude Dionysus standing left, holding cluster of grapes in right hand, and two narthex wands in his left hand, DIONYSOY to his right, two monograms, one each to the left and the right, TWTHPOS, to the left.
 
Reference: “After 148 BC (following the defeat of Andriscus and the organization of Macedonia into a Roman Province, the output of the great silver mines was sent to the Thracian mints of Maroneia and Thasos for conversion to coin). B.M.C. 3, 48-63. These issues were imitated by the Danubian Celts of the interior.” - D. Sear, Ibid.
 
A grey collection tone, trivial surface marks. Several test marks to edge made in antiquity.