cn type 11939
cn type 11939-0
cn type 11939-1
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Mint
Hoard
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cn type 11939

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Beardless male head, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Symbol
Z or N (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
10 mm (1x)
Average Weight
1.05 g (2x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 24  ❐

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. 1662  ❐

Literature

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

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.68  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 11939, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11939 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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