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cn coin 21600

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CN Type 11403 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 104-98 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
NI (position: above) thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
12.48 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766032

Provenience: Fonds général.2613; Ex-collection Cousinéry 1821

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 2613 12,58; cn-pergamon-A_1203

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1724, pl. 87, annot. (133-67 v. Chr.)  ❐

Literature

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 80, nr. 23, annot. (ca. 104-98 v. Chr.) ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 185, nr. 47, annot. (ca. 125-100? v. Chr.) ❐

Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 B.C.), New York, NY 2020 p. 67, nr. XLIV. ❐

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cn coin 21600, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21600 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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