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cn coin 10268

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CN Type 11468 🔍

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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
grain of barley (position: on the right) amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
5.14 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18247012

Provenience: Löbbecke 1906

Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 8, pl. 1,14 

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 931

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 10268, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10268 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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