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cn coin 38364

Connected to Type

CN Type 11629 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

49 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
Q METELLVS PIVS SCIPIO IMPER
Design
between facing serpents, a legionary eagle on a long pole.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: )
Persons

Magistrate: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio Pius (gestorben 46 v. Chr.) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30.1 mm
Weight
12.21 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Vatican 67 12,2i; cn-pergamon-A_1322

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. 41, nr. 68 ❐

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 29, nr. XVII. ❐

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 570, nr. 192 ❐

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cn coin 38364, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38364 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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