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cn coin 51185

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CN Type 11968 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙ
Design
Tripod.
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Symbol
owl (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
2.53 g
Axis
11
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 74 (20.08.2020) lot 484

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 21 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 940 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 11 ❐

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. 1649 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51185, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51185 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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