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cn coin 6685

Connected to Type

CN Type 6444 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left, wearing earring and sphendone. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos, holding two ears of corn in right hand and resting left arm on basket; in front, left, herm standing right.
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Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
7.04 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246889

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 270, nr. 4  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Nymphen und Chariten auf griechischen Münzen, Athen 1908 nr. 148, pl. 4, pic. 25  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 1 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 927 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 269-270, nr. 1 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 1 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 927 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 1, pl. 1, pic. 6 ❐

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. 171, nr. 1640 ❐

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