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cn coin 51143

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CN Type 8246 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos and holding ears of corn.
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Symbol
amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17.3 mm
Weight
5.18 g
Axis
5
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 5828; Gitbud & Naumann Pecunem 33 (05.07.2015) 54

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 4, pl. 1, pic. 8 ❐

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. 172, nr. 1645 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 928-929 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51143, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51143 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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