cn coin 51120

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Legend

ΣΗΣΤΙ

Design

Thyrsos
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Metrology

Denomination

middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

14 mm

Weight

2.01 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Savoca Numismatik eA 97 (14.03.2021) lot 51 = Savoca 101st Blue Auction, lot 75, 24.04.2021

Public Commentary

Cannot be assigned to any type due to the state of preservation.

Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 22, pl. 1,35 ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 942-943 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 10 ❐

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cn coin 51120, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51120 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/08]

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