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cn coin 29088

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CN Type 7075 🔍

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: ) Monogram reverse (position: above)
Symbol
cornucopia (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
11.01 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 664

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 664; cn-adramyttion_014

Citation

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 209, nr. 108a  ❐

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 24, nr. 65,1  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 3, nr. 6, pl. 1, pic. 7  ❐

Literature

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 209, nr. 108 ❐

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 24, nr. 65 ❐

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

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cn coin 29088, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29088 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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