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cn coin 40551

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CN Type 12781 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙ
Design
Tripod.
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Symbol
star (position: in exergue) Γ (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.75 g
Axis
12
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited, E-Sale 58, 842, 20.06.2019. From the Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018.

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 21, pl. 1,36 ❐

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. 1649 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 40551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40551 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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