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cn coin 21603

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CN Type 11321 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 150-140 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: on the left)
Symbol
thyrsos with fillet (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
12.70 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766035

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1707, pl. 86, annot. (ca. 180-133 v. Chr.)  ❐

Literature

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 31, nr. Serie 24a, annot. (150-140 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. (vor 190-125? v. Chr.) ❐

Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 B.C.), New York, NY 2020 p. 51, nr. XI. ❐

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cn coin 21603, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21603 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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