cn coin 51100

Connected to Type

CN Type 11970 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Female head, left, wearing earring and sphendone.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗ

Design

Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol

corn-ear (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

8.15 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1858,1106.1

Provenience: Purchased from: Pullen, 1858

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 2 ❐

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 2, pl. 7-9 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 931 ❐

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. 171, nr. 1641 ❐

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cn coin 51100, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51100 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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