AR, Cistophoric tetradrachm, ca. 42-39 BC, PERGAMON
Collection Dr. W. R. - From the Civil Wars of the Late Roman Republic to the Beginnings of the Roman Empire
ASIA, MYSIA
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AR, Cistophoric tetradrachm, ca. 42-39 BC, PERGAMON, Quaestor L. Sempronius Atratinus,
25 mm, 12.81 g.
Cista Mystica within ivy wreath with corymbas//Bowcase between two serpents, Q to left, serpent-entwined staff of Asklepios to right, monogram ATPA above.
Metcalf, W. E.: A note on the later Republican cistophori, SNR 88, 2009, 205-8 (cf. for a discussion of the mint); Metcalf 617 ff.; SNG France 1766; Stumpf 3.
Good very fine
Ex Collection RBW, purchased from Pars Coins, San José 1998, with old label; ex CNG Electronic Auction 364, Lancaster 2015, lot 282.