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cn coin 8140

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CN Type 8249 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, right, wearing ear wreath. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗ
Design
Hermes standing left, holding kerykeion in right hand; to left, amphora.
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Symbol
amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17.3 mm / Min: 16.2 mm
Weight
5.60 g
Axis
4
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Provenience: Leu e1, 156

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 9 ❐

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. 1647 (Description imprecise (cista mystica and barleycon mentioned).)  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 930 ❐

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cn coin 8140, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8140 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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