cn coin 21597

Connected to Type

CN Type 11399 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 135-128 BC

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: on the left)
Symbol
ΑΣ (position: above) gorgoneion (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
12.49 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr

Owner Inventory No.: 41766029

Provenience: Fonds général.2623

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Paris 2607 12,34; cn-pergamon-A_1151

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1710 

Literature

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 35, nr. Serie 30, annot. (ca. 135-128 v. Chr)

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. (etwas vor 190 - 125? v. Chr.)

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cn coin 21597, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21597 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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