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cn coin 38342

Connected to Type

CN Type 11632 🔍

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
Ϲ ΡVLϹΗΕR ΡRΟ ϹΟS ΜΗΝΟΦΑΝΤΟϹ
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: Menophantos 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29.4 mm
Owner

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Florenz, it ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Florenz 192; cn-pergamon-A_1295

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. 33f., nr. 54 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 27, nr. XIV. ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 569, nr. 186 ❐

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cn coin 38342, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38342 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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