cn coin 40558

Connected to Type

CN Type 11968 🔍

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

owl (position: on the left)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

3.41 g

Axis

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16626

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell

Literature

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

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 940 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 11 ❐

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 ❐

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cn coin 40558, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40558 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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