cn type 8290
cn type 8290-0
cn type 8290-1
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cn type 8290

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Caracalla, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ϹΗϹΤΙΩΝ
Design
Hero and Leander: nude Leander swimming right; to right, Hero standing on top of tower, holding lamp.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm (2x)
Average Weight
6.69 g (2x)
Axes
6 (2x)
Citation

Schlüter, Hero und Leander auf den antiken Münzen von Abydos und Sestos, 1985 p. 60, nr. 4, pic. 16  ❐

Literature

N. A. Mušmov, Antičnit moneti na Balkanskaja poluostrov i monetit na bulgarskit care, 1912 nr. 5546 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 200, nr. 18 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 nr. 2986 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.92  🔍

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cn type 8290, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8290 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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