cn coin 21641

Connected to Type

CN Type 11643 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

57-56 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 FABI M F PRO COS ΜΗΝΟΦΙΛΟC
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 Fabius M. f. 🔍

Magistrate: Menophilos 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
11.43 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766073

Provenience: Fonds général.2651

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1759, pl. 90 

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 24, nr. 116a, pl. 18 

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 25, nr. 30

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 24f., nr. VII.

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cn coin 21641, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21641 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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