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cn coin 29087

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CN Type 7060 🔍

Mint
Adramyttion 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 133-67 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
scarab (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.68 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Provenience: Cambridge, Corpus Christ College

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Lewis Cambridge 22; cn-adramyttion_012

Citation

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 209, nr. 107b  ❐

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 24, nr. 64,2  ❐

Literature

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 209, nr. 107 ❐

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 24, nr. 64 ❐

Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 B.C.), New York, NY 2020 nr. V. ❐

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cn coin 29087, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29087 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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