cn coin 13424

Connected to Type

CN Type 11468 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath and earring.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗ

Design

Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol

grain of barley (position: on the right)
amphora (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Weight

5.30 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Provenience: Fonds général 1911

Literature

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 172, nr. 1646  ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 931, pl. 18, pic. 931  ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 7-8, pl. I, pic. 13  ❐

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cn coin 13424, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13424 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/22]

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