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Æ16
| Issuer | Sestos |
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| Year | 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Hermes facing left, depicted in profile with fine archaic-style engraving. The god wears a broad-brimmed petasos helmet characteristic of his iconography, rendered with careful detail. The portrait is set within a beaded border encircling the flan, typical of Hellenistic civic bronze coinage of the Thracian Chersonese region. |
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| Reverse description | Demeter enthroned and facing left, her draped figure rendered in the classical Greek tradition. She extends her right hand forward, presenting a bundle of grain ears symbolic of her dominion over the harvest, while an amphora is placed to the lower left of the composition. The abbreviated ethnic inscription appears in the field, identifying the issuing city. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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