cn type 11946
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cn type 11946

Edition
cn.sestus.1_ed.44
Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysos wearing ivy wreath, facing.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙ
Design
Thyrsos
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Symbol
A (position: at the bottom left) grape (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm (1x)
Average Weight
2.03 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 22, pl. 1,35  ❐

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. 174, nr. 1657  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 942-943 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 10 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.44  🔍

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