cn coin 51101

Connected to Type

CN Type 11925 🔍

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

Δ (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

2.69 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1920,0516.1

Provenience: Purchased from: Lt C E S Palmer, 1920

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 16 ❐

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. 1648 ❐

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cn coin 51101, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51101 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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