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cn coin 38182

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CN Type 11397 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 128-123 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
caduceus-club (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29.1 mm
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 622

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 123, nr. 93  ❐

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 36, nr. 107a, pl. 9, pic. 9  ❐

Literature

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 36, nr. Serie 33, annot. (128-123 v. Chr.) ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 184f., nr. 45, annot. (etwas vor 190 - 125? v. Chr.) ❐

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 36, nr. Serie 33, annot. (128-123 v. Chr.) ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 184f., nr. 45, annot. (etwas vor 190 - 125? v. Chr.) ❐

Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 B.C.), New York, NY 2020 p. 53, nr. XXIII. ❐

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