cn coin 51237

Connected to Type

CN Type 21549 🔍

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath and earring.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗ

Design

Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol

amphora (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

18 mm

Weight

4.85 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Davissons Ltd. eA 40 (21.07.2021) lot 21. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular (May 1999) lot 1926. = Obolos Web Auction 16, lot 73, 11.10.2020

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 8 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 931 ❐

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. 1646 ❐

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cn coin 51237, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51237 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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