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cn type 12798

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysos wearing ivy wreath, facing.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙ
Design
Thyrsos
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Symbol
Β (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13.8 mm / Min: 12 mm
Average Weight
2.25 g (2x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Public Commentary

Der Typ mit dem Beizeichen B ist nur aus der Literatur bekannt. The type with symbol B is only known from literature.

Literature

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. 174, nr. 1657 ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 nr. 22 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.34  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12798, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12798 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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