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cn type 10338

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

305-305 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Nike standing left, holding laurel wreath and stylis.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
forepart of lion, left (position: on the left) bull-head facing (position: Below left wing)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
gold 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
8.53 g (4x)
Axes
12 (3x)
Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1217  ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 169, nr. 19  ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.16  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 10338, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/10338 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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