cn type 8273

Mint

Sestos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Herm, facing.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the right)

Reverse

Legend

ΣΑ

Design

Amphora.
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Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

11 mm (2x)

Average Weight

1.98 g (4x)

Axes

8 (1x)

Literature

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 173, nr. 1651 (Pictured coin falsely with ΣΗ. Type has ear at left.) ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.23 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8273, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8273 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]