cn type 8246
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cn type 8246-1
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cn type 8246

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos and holding ears of corn.
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Symbol
amphora (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 15.5 mm
Average Weight
4.73 g (16x)
Axes
1 (1x) 5 (2x) 11 (3x) 12 (1x)
Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 4, pl. 1, pic. 8  ❐

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. 172, nr. 1645  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 928-929 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.11  🔍

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cn type 8246, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8246 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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