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cn coin 10303

Connected to Type

CN Type 11920 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Lyre.
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Symbol
A (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.38 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247072

Provenience: 1873/382 - Vorbesitzer Brandis

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 272, nr. 27  ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6 f., nr. 17, pl. 1,31  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 936-937 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 272, nr. 24 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 17 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 936-937 ❐

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. 173, nr. 1655 (Legend shorter and given differently.)  ❐

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