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cn coin 28823

Connected to Type

CN Type 11468 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath and earring.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΗ
Design
Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol
grain of barley (position: on the right) amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
5.42 g
Axis
6
Owner

Tekirdağ, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, Tekirdağ, tr

Owner Inventory No.: 2000/129

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: T392

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 108, nr. 866, pl. L  ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 931, pl. 18, pic. 931 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 7, pl. I, pic. 13 ❐

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. 1646 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 931, pl. 18, pic. 931 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 7-8, pl. I, pic. 13 ❐

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