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cn coin 36628

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CN Type 8300 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos, holding two ears of corn in her outstretched right hand and resting her left on basket; in front of her, herm.
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Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
6.01 g
Axis
12
Owner

Archäologisches Museum Çanakkale, Çanakkale, tr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 20

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 138, nr. 1203, pl. LXIV  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 12, pl. 1,24 ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 172, nr. 1643 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 270, nr. 5 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 934 ❐

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