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cn coin 51205

Connected to Type

CN Type 8328 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗ
Design
Amphora.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
2.00 g
Axis
12
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 58 (20.06.2019) lot 828. 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. 7, nr. 19 ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 174, nr. 1661 (Lower weight, without monogram.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51205, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51205 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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