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cn coin 51139

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CN Type 11920 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Lyre.
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Symbol
A (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
1.75 g
Axis
11
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 58 (20.06.2019) lot 835; From the Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018.

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 272, nr. 24 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 17 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 936-937 ❐

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. 1655 (Legend shorter and given differently.)  ❐

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cn coin 51139, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51139 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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