cn coin 38268

Connected to Type

CN Type 11382 🔍

Mint

Pergamon 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 85-76 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Cista mystica from which a serpent emerges to left, the whole surrounded by an ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Design

Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case.
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Monogram

(position: on the left)
(position: above)

Symbol

MH (position: above)
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

cistophorus 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

27.6 mm

Weight

11.03 g

Owner

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Dipartimento del Gabinetto Numismatico, Vatikan, va  ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Vatican 33 11,03; cn-pergamon-A_1257

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Literature

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 563, nr. 114  ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 81, nr. 41, annot. (ca. 85-76 v. Chr.)  ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 186, nr. 51, annot. (Anfang 1. Jh. v. Chr., vor 68 v. Chr.)  ❐

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