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cn coin 19141

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CN Type 11455 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 160-150 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
Monogram reverse (position: )
Symbol
torch with handguard (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
11.53 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18258953

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Loebb 555 11,52; cn-pergamon-A_1140

Citation

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 26, nr. 23f  ❐

Literature

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 184f., nr. 45, annot. (kurz vor 190-125? v. Chr.) ❐

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 26, nr. Serie 11a, annot. (160-150 v. Chr.) ❐

Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 B.C.), New York, NY 2020 p. 50, nr. III. ❐

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cn coin 19141, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_19141 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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