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cn coin 21638

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CN Type 11635 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

55-53 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
Legend
Ϲ ΡVLϹΗΕR ΡRΟ ϹΟS ΒΙωΝ
Design
Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Persons

Proconsul: Gaius Claudius Ap. f. Pulcher 🔍

Magistrate: Bion 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
11.92 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766070

Provenience: Waddington 6965

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1760, pl. 90  ❐

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 32, nr. 48 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 27, nr. XIII. ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 569, nr. 184 ❐

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cn coin 21638, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21638 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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