cn type 6444
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cn type 6444

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left, wearing earring and sphendone.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
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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Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 20 mm
Average Weight
8.33 g (19x)
Axes
2 (1x) 3 (1x) 11 (2x) 12 (4x)
Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 1, pl. 1, pic. 6  ❐

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. 171, nr. 1640  ❐

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 269-270, nr. 1 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 198, nr. 1 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 927 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.6  🔍

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cn type 6444, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6444 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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