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cn coin 10253

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CN Type 8281 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Male, youthful head wearing taenia, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Symbol
amphora (position: at the bottom left) grain of barley (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
3.94 g
Axis
10
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18246981

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 6, pl. 1,9 

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5 f., nr. 6

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 172, nr. 1642 (Given here to a heavier weight class.) 

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cn coin 10253, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10253 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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