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cn coin 38340

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CN Type 11630 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

55-53 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
Legend
C PVLCHER PRO COS ΜΑΧAωΝ
Design
Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: )
Symbol
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Persons

Proconsul: Gaius Claudius Ap. f. Pulcher 🔍

Magistrate: Machaon 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28.2 mm
Weight
12.46 g
Owner

Consul E.F. Weber, Hamburg, de

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Weber Hamb 92 12.46; cn-pergamon-A_1292

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 33, nr. 51-52 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 28, nr. XVI. ❐

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cn coin 38340, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38340 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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