cn type 12551
cn type 12551-0
cn type 12551-1
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cn type 12551

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
ΣΗ
Design
Lyre.
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Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 13 mm
Average Weight
3.61 g (13x)
Axes
11 (2x) 12 (3x)
Public Commentary

Always centerhole on obverse and reverse.

Literature

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 16 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 936-937 ❐

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.54  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12551 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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