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cn type 8299

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left, wearing sphendone.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑ
Design
Naked Hermes with caduceus and chlamys, standing left.
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Symbol
amphora (position: at the bottom left) grain of barley (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 25 mm / Min: 22 mm
Average Weight
7.81 g (5x)
Axes
3 (1x) 12 (3x)
Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 5, nr. 2, pl. 1,7  ❐

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. 171, nr. 1641  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 nr. 4 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 930 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.8  🔍

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cn type 8299, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8299 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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