cn type 8300
cn type 8300-0
cn type 8300-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn type 8300

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 150-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female head, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΗΣΤΙ
Design
Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos, holding two ears of corn in her outstretched right hand and resting her left on basket; in front of her, herm.
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Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
6.44 g (21x)
Axes
11 (2x) 12 (7x)
Citation

Fritze, Sestos. Die Menas-Inschrift und das Münzwesen der Stadt 1, 1907 p. 6, nr. 12, pl. 1,24  ❐

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. 172, nr. 1643  ❐

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 270, nr. 5 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 934 ❐

editions

cn.sestus.1_ed.43  🔍

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cn type 8300, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8300 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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