Mysia. Pergamon circa 166-67 BC. Struck circa 76 BC
Cistophoric Tetradrachm AR
25mm., 12,18g.
Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, AΠ above prytaneis monogram of ΠΡΥ, and star, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined thyrsos to right.
very fine
Kleiner, Hoard 25; SNG BN 1726-7.