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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8221815, member: 99456&quot;][ATTACH=full]1444193[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://www.artparks.co.uk/artpark_sculpture.php?sculpture=12600&amp;sculptor=tristan_macdougall" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.artparks.co.uk/artpark_sculpture.php?sculpture=12600&amp;sculptor=tristan_macdougall" rel="nofollow">Classical Bronze Wall Panel statue by Tristan MacDougall 2019</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace is where the tragic love story of Orpheus &amp; Eurydice originates - illustrated by the wall panel above. Orpheus, son of Apollo or son of Oeagrus, a king of Thrace, loses his love, Eurydice, to a poisonous snake bite, so he travels to the underworld to rescue her, and succeeds in getting the chance to bring her back from Hades. However, just before re-emerging from the underworld, he slips up and loses her again as he breaks the rules established for her return.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Although it is not a Roman coin, Rome three times intervened to give Thrace its freedom between the reign of Phillip II and the end of the Third Macedonian War&nbsp; (171–168 BC).&nbsp; Here are two coins from this region after the third Macedonian War between Rome and Macedonia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoyed Edith Schönert-Geiss&#039;s qualification of &quot;freedom&quot; after the Macedonian Wars with &quot;as much as one can speak of freedom and independence given the position that Rome had won in the Aegean&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444133[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Thrace, Thasos</b>, AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.85g), circa 148-90/80 BC</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath</p><p><b>Rev: </b>HPAKΛEOYΣ / ΣΩTHPOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN, Herakles standing left, holding club and lion skin, monogram to inner left</p><p><b>Ref: </b>SNG Copenhagen 1046-8</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin from Maroneia, port city north east of Tasos.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444188[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Thrace, Maroneia</b>, Æ 26mm, Circa 168-145 BC</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy-wreath</p><p><b>Rev: </b>ΔIONYΣOY ΣΩTHPOΣ MAPΩNITΩN, Dionysos standing to left holding grape bunch and spears; monogram to lower left</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Schönert-Geiss 1354-1405</p><p><br /></p><p>Maroneia was known for its good wine and horses - the wine was used by Odysseus to get the Cyclops drunk.&nbsp; A longer set of notes and references for these coins can be found in my notes (Here: <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/thracian-wine-coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/thracian-wine-coins" rel="nofollow">Thracian Wine and Coins</a>), along with modern evidence for winemaking in 4300 BCE in this region.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a reference on the coins of Maroneia: Edith Schönert-Geiss&#039; book <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Sch%F6nert-Geiss%20Maroneia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Sch%F6nert-Geiss%20Maroneia" rel="nofollow"><i>Die Münzprägung von Maroneia</i></a> (Berlin, 1987) is useful and available online.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Post your coins of Thrace, or anything you find interesting or entertaining.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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