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cn coin 40543

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CN Type 8249 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗ
Design
Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol
amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
5.55 g
Axis
3
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16620

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 9 ❐

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. 1647 (Description imprecise (cista mystica and barleycon mentioned).)  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 930 ❐

Web Reference: http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.16620?lang=de ❐

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cn coin 40543, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40543 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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