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cn coin 51161

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CN Type 11926 🔍

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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
B (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.40 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann) eA 121 (02.10.2022) lot 118

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 16, pl. 1,30 ❐

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. 1648 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51161, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51161 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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