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cn coin 21642

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CN Type 11629 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

49 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
Q METELLVS PIVS SCIPIO IMPER
Design
between facing serpents, a legionary eagle on a long pole.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: )
Persons

Magistrate: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio Pius (gestorben 46 v. Chr.) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.5 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
11.05 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766074

Provenience: Fonds général.2652

Public Commentary

gelocht

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1763, pl. 90, annot. (49-48 v. Chr.)  ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 29, nr. 194a, pl. 30  ❐

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 41, nr. 68 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 29, nr. XVII. ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 570, nr. 192 ❐

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cn coin 21642, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21642 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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