cn coin 38364

Connected to Type

CN Type 11629 🔍

Mint

Pergamon 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

49 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

Legend

Q METELLVS PIVS SCIPIO IMPER

Design

between facing serpents, a legionary eagle on a long pole.
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Monogram

(position: )

Persons

Magistrate

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio Pius (gestorben 46 v. Chr.) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

cistophorus 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

30.1 mm

Weight

12.21 g

Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Vatican 67 12,2i; cn-pergamon-A_1322

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 41, nr. 68  ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 29, nr. XVII.  ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 570, nr. 192  ❐

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cn coin 38364, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38364 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/24]

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