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cn type 21551

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Lyre.
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Symbol
Γ (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
10 mm (1x)
Average Weight
0.95 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 17 ❐

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. 173, nr. 1648 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 21551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/21551 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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