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cn coin 6691

Connected to Type

CN Type 8246 🔍

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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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 left field, amphora.
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Symbol
amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.51 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246895

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 4 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 928-929 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 4, pl. 1, pic. 8 ❐

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. 1645 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 928-929 ❐

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cn coin 6691, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6691 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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