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cn coin 38290

Connected to Type

CN Type 11239 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

123-67 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
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right) ΦΙ (position: above)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28.2 mm
Weight
12.39 g
Owner

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Dipartimento del Gabinetto Numismatico, Vatikan, va ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Vatican 65 12,39; cnpergamon-A_1278

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Literature

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.) ❐

Kleiner, Hoard evidence and the late cistophori of Pergamum, 1978 p. 81, nr. 50, annot. (ca. 76-67 v. Chr.) ❐

Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 4: Sammlung v. Aulock. Mysien, 1050-1438, Berlin 1957 nr. 7484 ❐

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