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cn coin 51278

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CN Type 12764 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙΑ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos, holding two ears of corn in her outstretched right hand and resting her left on basket; in front of her, herm.
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Symbol
A (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
4.99 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann) eA 117 (05.06.2022) lot 168

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 12, pl. 1,24

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. 172, nr. 1643

Cite this record:

cn coin 51278, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51278 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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