cn type 12550
cn type 12550-0
cn type 12550-1
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cn type 12550

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left, wearing sphendone.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣ
Design
Herm, facing.
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Symbol
B (position: on the left) Ear of grain (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm
Average Weight
2.17 g (5x)
Axes
12 (4x)
Citation

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. 1652  ❐

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 14  ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.19  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12550, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12550 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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