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cn coin 51160

Connected to Type

CN Type 8251 🔍

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
ΣΗ
Design
Caduceus.
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Symbol
N retrograde (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
10 mm
Weight
1.02 g
Axis
2
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: SHH 7479; Numismatik Naumann 121 (02.10.2022) 116

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 18, pl. 1,32 ❐

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. 174, nr. 1660 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 273, nr. 36 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 938 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 9 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51160, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51160 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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