cn type 11970
cn type 11970-0
cn type 11970-1
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cn type 11970

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left, wearing earring and sphendone.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗ
Design
Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
7.61 g (5x)
Axes
6 (1x) 7 (1x) 12 (1x)
Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 2, pl. 7-9 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 931 ❐

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. 171, nr. 1641 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.7  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 11970, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11970 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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