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| Image of specimen #3 | |
| URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1739 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
| Volume | I |
| Number | 1739 |
| Province | Thrace |
| Region | Thrace |
| City | Sestus |
| Reign | Augustus |
| Issue | Augustus (?) |
| Obverse inscription | |
| Obverse design | laureate head, right |
| Reverse inscription | ΣΗΣ[ |
| Edition | Σησ[---] |
| Translation | Sestus [---] |
| Reverse design | lyre |
| Metal | copper-based alloy |
| Average diameter | 16 mm |
| Average weight | 3.83 g |
| Axis | 6 |
| Reference | BMC 16 ('Domitian') |
| Specimens | 3 (1 in the core collections) |
| Note | This type was given to Augustus (?) though the BMC attributed the L coin to Domitian. This attribution seems now the most likely: see M. Fox, Two numismatic puzzles from 1st century Sestus in B. Ciupercă (ed.), Archaeology of the first millennium A.D. IV. Nomads and the autochtonous in the first millennium A.D. (Istros, 2015), pp. 33-47 (and RPC II, 358A). |
| Correction | Corrected coin-type (post publication) |