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bgr_603193 - THRACE - SESTOS Unité

THRACE - SESTOS Unité VF
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Price : 70.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sestos, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait de Perséphone. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Cop.930  - HGCS. 3/2-1647

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Perséphone à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Hermes debout à gauche ; une amphore à sa gauche .
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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