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cn coin 51112

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CN Type 8299 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left, wearing sphendone.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol
amphora (position: at the bottom left) grain of barley (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
7.50 g
Axis
12
Owner

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Archäologisches Museum, Münster, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 851; M 553

Provenience: Theobald Bieder

Literature

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

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. 171, nr. 1641 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 nr. 4 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 930 ❐

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cn coin 51112, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51112 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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