cn type 12042
cn type 12042-0
cn type 12042-1
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cn type 12042

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Lyre.
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Symbol
Γ (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14 mm / Min: 10 mm
Average Weight
2.63 g (4x)
Axes
11 (3x)
Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 17 ❐

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. 1648 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.53  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12042, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12042 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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