cn type 8243
cn type 8243-0
cn type 8243-1
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cn type 8243

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

98-117 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Laureate head of Trajan, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ϹΗϹΤΙΩΝ
Design
Lyre.
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Persons

Sitter: Trajan 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 15 mm
Average Weight
3.28 g (19x)
Axes
1 (1x) 6 (2x) 12 (4x)
Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/756

Citation

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 nr. 756  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 200, nr. 17 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 949 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 321, nr. 2976-2978 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/756 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.83  🔍

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cn type 8243, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8243 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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