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cn coin 41232

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CN Type 11635 🔍

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 ΒΙωΝ
Design
Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
thyrsus entcircled by serpent (position: on the right)
Persons

Proconsul: Gaius Claudius Ap. f. Pulcher 🔍

Magistrate: Bion 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
11.95 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18271343

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Loebb 255 ß 11.96; cn-pergamon-A_1305/06

Citation

Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori, New York 2017 p. 27, nr. 149b, pl. 23  ❐

Literature

Stumpf et al., Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.), Saarbrücken 1991 p. 32, nr. 48 ❐

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

Pinder, Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia: mit acht Kupfertafeln, Berlin 1856 p. 569, nr. 184 ❐

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cn coin 41232, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_41232 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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