cn type 8281
cn type 8281-0
cn type 8281-1
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cn type 8281

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Male, youthful head wearing taenia, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Herm, facing.
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Symbol
amphora (position: at the bottom left) grain of barley (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm (3x)
Average Weight
3.91 g (3x)
Axes
4 (1x) 10 (1x)
Citation

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

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. 172, nr. 1642  (Given here to a heavier weight class.)  ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.12  🔍

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cn type 8281, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8281 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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