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cn coin 53280

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CN Type 11454 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 160-150 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
Design
Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: ) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Symbol
torch with handguard (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
cistophorus 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
12.74 g
Axis
12
Owner

Coll. G. Plankenhorn, , de

Provenience: Ex Naumann Wien 61, 2018, Nr. 169.

Citation

Plankenhorn, Münzen aus Mysien, München 2022 p. 131, nr. 40  ❐

Literature

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 184f., nr. 45, annot. (kurz vor 190-125? v. Chr.) ❐

Kleiner and Noe, The early cistophoric coinage, New York 1977 p. 26, nr. Serie 11b, annot. (160-150 v. Chr.) ❐

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cn coin 53280, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53280 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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