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cn coin 51127

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

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
10 mm
Weight
1.72 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Münz Zentrum Rheinland eA 186 (17.10.2018) lot 90 = 23rd Blue Auction, lot 177, 24.08.2019

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 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51127, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51127 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

License:

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