cn type 11952
cn type 11952-0
cn type 11952-1
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Mint
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cn type 11952

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
ΣΗΣ
Design
Thyrsos
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Symbol
E (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm (5x)
Average Weight
1.75 g (6x)
Axes
6 (2x) 9 (1x) 12 (1x)
Literature

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

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 ❐

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 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.45  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 11952, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11952 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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