cn coin 40559

Connected to Type

CN Type 12793 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

3. c. BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΣΗ

Design

Caduceus.
go to the NLP result of this description

Symbol

A(?) (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

0.53 g

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16628

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell

Citation

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. 174, nr. 1660 (Here type with monogram.) ❐

Literature

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. 174, nr. 1660 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 nr. 18 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 40559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40559 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us