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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
Two upright snakes; in between, legionary eagle.
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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
Max: 30.1 mm / Min: 23 mm
Average Weight
11.79 g (8x)
Axes
1 (1x) 12 (2x)
Citation

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 type 11629, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11629 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/13]

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