cn coin 51140

Connected to Type

CN Type 12042 🔍

Mint

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

Γ (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

14 mm

Weight

2.86 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 837; From the Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018.

Literature

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

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. 1648 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51140, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51140 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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