cn coin 13415

Connected to Type

CN Type 11952 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysos wearing ivy wreath, facing.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗΣ

Design

Thyrsos
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Symbol

E (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

1.54 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Fonds général 1902

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 22 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 942-943 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 10 ❐

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. 174, nr. 1657 ❐

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cn coin 13415, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13415 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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