Sestos, bronze (CN type 23191)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 150-100 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Sestos in Thrace dated ca. 150-100 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 23191. Obverse: Head of young man with short hair, left. Reverse: Cornucopia.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 9.8 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 0.83 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Sestos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of young man with short hair, left.
- Reverse type
- Cornucopia.
- Reverse legend
- ΣΗΣ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/23191
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 23191
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
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 7, nr. 23
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution