cn type 12795

Edition

cn.sestus.1_ed.29

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 200-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Female head, left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΗΣΤΙΑ

Design

Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos and holding ears of corn.
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Symbol

Ε (position: on the left)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Average Weight

6.43 g (1x)

Public Commentary

Der Typ mit dem Bezeichen E (oder B?) ist bislang nur aus der Literatur bekannt. The type with E (or B?) as symbol is so far only known from literature.

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 13 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 12 ❐

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. 172, nr. 1644 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.29 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12795, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.sestus.1_ed.29 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/19]