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cn coin 38236

Connected to Type

CN Type 11344 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 92-88 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
ΔΗ (position: above) thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27.5 mm
Weight
12.40 g
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Athen 50776 12,40; cn-pergamon-A_1228

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. 563, nr. 106 ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 80, nr. 31, annot. (ca. 92-88 v. Chr.) ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 186, nr. 51, annot. (Anfang 1. Jh. v. Chr., vor 68 v. Chr.) ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 563, nr. 106 ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 80, nr. 31, annot. (ca. 92-88 v. Chr.) ❐

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 186, nr. 51, annot. (Anfang 1. Jh. v. Chr., vor 68 v. Chr.) ❐

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