cn coin 51102

Connected to Type

CN Type 12047 🔍

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

Herm, facing.
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Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

1.07 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: EH,p239.2.Ses

Provenience: Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 8 ❐

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 nr. 14 ❐

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. 1652 ❐

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cn coin 51102, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51102 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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