cn coin 51118

Connected to Type

CN Type 11954 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

150-100 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysos wearing ivy wreath, facing.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗΣ

Design

Thyrsos
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Symbol

square C (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

11 mm

Weight

1.73 g

Axis

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 58 (20.06.2019) lot 829. From the Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018.

Literature

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. 174, nr. 1657 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 nr. 22 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51118, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51118 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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