cn type 12764

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Female head, left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗΣΤΙΑ

Design

Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos, holding two ears of corn in her outstretched right hand and resting her left on basket; in front of her, herm.
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Symbol

A (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 20 mm / Min: 18 mm

Average Weight

6.27 g (4x)

Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 12, pl. 1,24 ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 172, nr. 1643 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.41 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12764, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12764 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]