cn coin 40542

Connected to Type

CN Type 6444 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Female head, left, wearing earring and sphendone.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑ

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

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

22 mm

Weight

8.54 g

Axis

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2008.1.4

Provenience: CNG Auction 76.Lot.220. Christopher Morcom Coll. Ex Prof. S.Pozzi Coll. (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921).

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 269-270, nr. 1 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 1 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 927 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 1, pl. 1, pic. 6 ❐

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. 171, nr. 1640 ❐

Web Reference: http://numismatics.org/collection/2008.1.4?lang=de ❐

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cn coin 40542, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40542 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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