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cn coin 38357

Connected to Type

CN Type 11640 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

56-55 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 SEPTVMI T F PRO COS ΠΟCЄΙΔωΝΙΟC
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 Septimius T. f. 🔍

Magistrate: Poseidonios 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29.2 mm
Weight
12.26 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: RF 23 12,26; cn-pergamon-A_1313

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. 30, nr. 41 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 26, nr. X. ❐

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cn coin 38357, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38357 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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