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

(position: )
(position: at the bottom left)

Symbol

torch with handguard (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

cistophorus 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 29 mm / Min: 27.4 mm

Average Weight

12.58 g (3x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Citation

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 type 11454, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/11454 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/22]

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