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

(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

Average Weight

11.94 g (2x)

Axes

1 (1x)

Citation

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 type 11635, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/11635 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/13]

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