cn coin 51036

Connected to Type

CN Type 11920 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗΣ

Design

Lyre.
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Symbol

A (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

1.77 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1938,1007.240

Provenience: Donated by: Sir Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, 1938

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 272, nr. 24 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 17 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 936-937 ❐

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. 1655 (Legend shorter and given differently.) ❐

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cn coin 51036, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51036 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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