cn type 11938
cn type 11938-0
cn type 11938-1
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cn type 11938

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of young man with short hair, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Symbol
Δ (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm
Average Weight
2.10 g (7x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Citation

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. 1658  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 23, pl. 1,34 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 944 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.61  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 11938, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11938 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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