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cn coin 13420

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CN Type 11919 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗ
Design
Lyre.
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Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
3.07 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 1907

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 15, pl. 1,29 ❐

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

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. 1648 ❐

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cn coin 13420, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13420 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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