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cn coin 21639

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CN Type 11630 🔍

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
C PVLCHER PRO COS ΜΑΧAωΝ
Design
Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: )
Symbol
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Persons

Proconsul: Gaius Claudius Ap. f. Pulcher 🔍

Magistrate: Machaon 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24.5 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
11.88 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766071

Provenience: Waddington 6966

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris W. 6966 11,95; cn-pergamon-A_1294

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1761, pl. 90  ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 28, nr. 173a, pl. 27  ❐

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 33, nr. 51-52 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 28, nr. XVI. ❐

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cn coin 21639, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21639 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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