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cn coin 38192

Connected to Type

CN Type 11331 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 123-104 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)
Symbol
AΣ (position: above) thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26.9 mm
Weight
12.42 g
Owner

Gaudin, Smyrna, tr

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Gaudin 145 12,42; cn-pergamon-A_1177

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Literature

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 562, nr. 92 ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 79, nr. 2 ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 185, nr. 47, annot. (ca. 125-100? v. Chr.) ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 562, nr. 92 ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 79, nr. 2 ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 185, nr. 47, annot. (ca. 125-100? v. Chr.) ❐

Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 B.C.), New York, NY 2020 p. 55, nr. XXX. ❐

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cn coin 38192, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38192 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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