original - License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 - Photographer: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann) ❐

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Mint

Hoard

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cn type 11905

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 200-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Diademed 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

Poppy seed capsule (position: on the left) Δ (position: above)

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 20 mm / Min: 18 mm

Average Weight

5.42 g (5x)

Axes

1 (1x) 11 (1x) 12 (3x)

Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 13, pl. 1,28 ❐

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 270, nr. 6 ❐

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.30 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 11905, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11905 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]