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Sesamos, bronze coin — Kantharos (CN type 23927)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 360–300 BC

Issuing entity

Sesamos

Coin in bronze struck at Sesamos, dated c. 360–300 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 23927 (period: Classical Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo, left. Reverse: Kantharos; above, bunch of grapes. Legend: ΣΗΣΑ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 2.5 g (from 1 recorded specimen) and a diameter of 15 mm (from 1 recorded specimen). The corpus assigns the type to the Chian weight standard. Published references cited by the corpus: Waddington et al., Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie Mineure. Pont et Paphlagenie 1.1, Paris 1925, p. 199, nr. 5.

Evidence at a glance

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Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
15 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
2.5 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Sesamos
Authority type
City
Weight standard
Chian

Design

Obverse type
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
Reverse type
Kantharos; above, bunch of grapes.
Reverse legend
ΣΗΣΑ

Identification

Period
Classical Period
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/23927
Type corpus identifier
CN type 23927

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