cn coin 38274

Connected to Type

CN Type 11350 🔍

Mint

Pergamon 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 76-67 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

monogram within wreath (position: above)
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
MOΣ (position: above)

Metrology

Denomination

cistophorus 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

27.1 mm

Weight

11.56 g

Owner

Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Münzsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, de  ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Frankfurt 36 11,56; cn-pergamon-A_1263

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. 124  ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 81, nr. 45, annot. (ca. 76-67 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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cn coin 38274, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38274 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/26]

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