bgr_780594 - MYSIA - PERGAMON Cistophore
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Price : 350.00 €
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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Cistophore
Date: c. 150-140 AC.
Mint name / Town : Pergame, Mysie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,72 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, centré. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Ciste mystique de laquelle s'échappe un serpent ; le tout dans une couronne dionysiaque.
Reverse
Reverse description : Arc et goryte orné d'un aplustre entre deux serpents ; dans le champ à gauche entre les serpents, une petite proue de navire à droite et dans le champ à droite, un petit dauphin tourné à gauche.
Reverse legend : (PERG)
Reverse translation : (Pergame).
Commentary
Pour cette série 23b avec la proue et le dauphin nous avons huit exemplaires avec six coins de droit et huit coins de revers.
Historical background
MYSIA - PERGAMON
(190-133 BC)
Pergame, located about twenty kilometers from the Mysian coast was in a fertile region. The city experienced a period of splendor under the energetic domination of the Attalids. Pergamos had been the place where the eunuch Philetario kept the treasure of Lysimachus, composed of more than 9,000 talents (more than 200 tons of metal). Philetario first betrays Lysimachus for Seleucus, before proclaiming himself independent, keeping the jackpot for his own account, the origin of the proverbial prosperity of Pergame. The new kingdom would experience significant economic prosperity after the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. By dying in 133 BC, Attalus III bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans who created the province of Asia with Pergamum for capital. The city was famous for its library and its sanctuary dedicated to Asclepius.
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