cn coin 51096

Connected to Type

CN Type 11468 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath and earring.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗ

Design

Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol

grain of barley (position: on the right) amphora (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

5.66 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1841,0328.41

Provenience: Purchased from: Matthew Young, 1841

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 3 ❐

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. 172, nr. 1646 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 931, pl. 18, pic. 931 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 7-8, pl. I, pic. 13 ❐

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