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cn coin 10270

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CN Type 8249 🔍

Mint
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
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.21 g
Axis
10
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247015

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Graves

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 271, nr. 11  ❐

Literature

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

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 10270, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10270 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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