bgr_949981 - THRACE - SESTOS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sestos, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 10 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Hermes ithyphallique : à gauche un épi et à droite un caducée.
Reverse
Reverse description : Amphore.
Reverse legend : SH
Reverse translation : (Sestus).
Historical background
THRACE - SESTOS
(4th - 2nd century BC)
Sestus, placed in the Chersonese of Thrace was located at the entrance of the Hellespont in front of Abydos. It was an Aeolian colony founded by Lesbos. This is where Xerxes marched his army from Asia to Europe over a pontoon bridge during the Second Persian War in 480 BC..
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