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cn coin 51403

Connected to Type

CN Type 8245 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

193-211 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ ΑV ϹΕ ϹΕΟVΗΡΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ϹΗϹΤΙΩΝ
Design
Hero and Leander: nude Leander swimming right; to right, Hero standing on top of tower, holding lamp.
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Persons

Sitter: Septimius Severus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
7.44 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Münzen & Medaillen GmbH (DE) eA 40 (04.06.2014) lot 350. Aus Auktion F. Sternberg, Zürich 28. /29. 11. 1975, 147.

Literature

Schlüter, Hero und Leander auf den antiken Münzen von Abydos und Sestos, 1985 p. 59, nr. 2, pic. 14 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51403, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51403 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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