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cn coin 10287

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CN Type 11905 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 200-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed female head, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙΑ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos and holding ears of corn.
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Symbol
Poppy seed capsule (position: on the left) Δ (position: above)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
5.74 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247047

Provenience: Fox 1873

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 270, nr. 6  ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 13, pl. 1,28  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 12 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 13, pl. 1,28 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 270, nr. 6 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 12 ❐

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. 1644 ❐

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