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cn coin 10269

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CN Type 8249 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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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)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
4.59 g
Axis
5
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18247013

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Literature

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

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 930

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

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. 1647 (Description imprecise (cista mystica and barleycon mentioned).) 

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 930

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cn coin 10269, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10269 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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