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cn coin 21607

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CN Type 11338 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 123-104 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) Monogram reverse (position: above)
Symbol
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
12.53 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766039

Provenience: Fonds général.2620

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1713, pl. 87, annot. (ca. 133-67 v. Chr.)  ❐

Literature

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 563, nr. 100 ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 79, nr. 6, annot. (ca. 123-104 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. 60, nr. XXXIV. ❐

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cn coin 21607, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21607 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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