cn coin 6688
cn coin 6688-0
cn coin 6688-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 6688

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.
go to the NLP result of this description
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.
go to the NLP result of this description
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
7.57 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246892

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

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 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 6688, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6688 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us