original - License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 - Photographer: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke & Wiedemann) ❐

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Mint

Hoard

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cn type 8274

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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Symbol

grape (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

12 mm (2x)

Average Weight

1.89 g (2x)

Axes

4 (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 on obverse, without grape on reverse.) ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.24 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8274, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8274 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]