cn type 8256
cn type 8256-0
cn type 8256-1
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cn type 8256

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

27 BC-14 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟV
Design
Bare head of Augustus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ϹΗϹΤΙ
Design
Lyre.
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Persons

Sitter: Augustus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 13 mm
Average Weight
2.69 g (12x)
Axes
12 (4x)
Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1740

Citation

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 p. 317, nr. 1740, pl. 83  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 319, nr. 2967 ❐

Fox, Two numismatic puzzles from 1st century Sestus, 2015 p. 38 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1740 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.75  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8256, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8256 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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