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| Issuer | Sestos |
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| Year | 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Demeter or a seated deity enthroned to the right, holding a long palm branch or grain stalk upward in the left hand and a patera or sceptre in the right hand. The figure is depicted in a long chiton and himation, seated on an elaborately decorated throne or klismos chair. The composition is characteristic of civic bronze coinage from Sestos in the late fourth to early third century BC, with the ethnic legend partially visible in the field to the right. |
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| Mint | Sestos |
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Sestos controlled the narrowest point of the Hellespont, and its civic coinage reflects the toll-collecting authority the city exercised over maritime traffic between the Aegean and the Black Sea. The SNG Copenhagen 935 variant designation suggests a die difference from the principal specimen — likely obverse or reverse die pairing — though the precise distinction requires direct comparison against the Copenhagen example.