Mysia, Pergamon Tetradrachm circa 166-67 BC

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Mysia, Pergamon silver cistophoric tetradrachm, about 12.44 g, circa 166–67 BC, in Good Very Fine condition, featuring the prytaneis monogram ΠPY and civic monogram ΠΕΡ with a reverse showing a basket, snakes and a thyrsos.

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★ Pergamon - Attractive Reverse! Civic Official Prytaneis monogram = ΠPY. ★

Mysia. Pergamon circa 166-67 BC. Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bowcase ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, TΗ, above prytaneis monogram of ΠΡΥT, to left, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ, to right, thyrsos entwined by a serpent. Kleiner, Hoard 49; Pinder 118. The monogram ΠPY has been credibly interpreted as prytaneis, the name of a certain group of civic officials.
Cistophoric Tetradrachm AR

21 mm, 12,44 g

Good Very Fine

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