cn coin 51097

Connected to Type

CN Type 8272 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Herm, facing.
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Symbol

corn-ear (position: on the left) caduceus (position: on the right)

Reverse

Legend

ΣΗ

Design

Amphora.
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Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

1.20 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1851,0503.186

Provenience: Purchased from: James Millingen (executors), 1851

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 6 ❐

Literature

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 173, nr. 1653 ❐

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cn coin 51097, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51097 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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