cn type 8271
cn type 8271-0
cn type 8271-1
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Mint
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cn type 8271

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Herm, facing.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: on the left) caduceus (position: on the right)
Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Amphora.
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Symbol
dot / pellet (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13 mm / Min: 10 mm
Average Weight
2.10 g (13x)
Axes
2 (1x) 5 (1x) 8 (1x) 10 (1x) 11 (1x)
Literature

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. 173, nr. 1651 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.17  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8271, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8271 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

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