cn coin 51095

Connected to Type

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

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

6.11 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1922,0317.31

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 ❐

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cn coin 51095, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51095 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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