cn coin 51222

Connected to Type

CN Type 11468 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC
Hellenistic 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

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

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

18 mm

Weight

5.31 g

Axis

6

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 58 (20.06.2019) lot 815. From the Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018.

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 51222, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51222 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/12]

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