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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Pergamon |
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| Year | 104 BC - 98 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Cista mystica depicted in three-quarter perspective, from which a serpent emerges and coils around the basket; the entire design is encircled by an ivy wreath bearing fruits, rendered in fine relief characteristic of late Pergamene die engraving. |
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| Reverse description | Two serpents coiled symmetrically around a bow case (gorytos), their heads facing one another; in the field between the snake heads, the magistrate's letters ΜΗ; to the left, the civic monogram of ΠΕΡΓ (Pergamon); to the right, a thyrsos entwined by a serpent, referencing Dionysiac iconography associated with the cistophoric coinage series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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