cn type 11958
cn type 11958-0
cn type 11958-1
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cn type 11958

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙ
Design
Tripod.
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Symbol
Δ (position: on the left) Bow and arrow (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17.08 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
4.24 g (6x)
Axes
12 (3x)
Public Commentary

Undeutliches Beizeichen im Abschnitt. Indistinct symbol in exergue.

Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 7, nr. 21, pl. 1,36  ❐

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. 173, nr. 1649  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 940-941 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 199, nr. 11 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.62  🔍

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cn type 11958, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11958 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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