Sestos, bronze (CN type 12795)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 200-100 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Sestos in Thrace dated ca. 200-100 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12795. Obverse: Female head, left. Reverse: Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos and holding ears of corn.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 6.43 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Sestos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Female head, left.
- Reverse type
- Demeter seated left on basket, wearing kalathos and holding ears of corn.
- Reverse legend
- ΣΗΣΤΙΑ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12795
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12795
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Research required
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 6, nr. 13
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 199, nr. 12
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 172, nr. 1644
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- No rights-cleared photograph attached yet