Mysia. Pergamon circa 166-67 BC. Struck circa 92-88 BC
Cistophoric Tetradrachm AR
28 mm., 12,54 g.
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, between the snake heads, EY, above prytaneis monogram of ΠΡΥT, to left, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ, to right, serpent-entwined staff of Asclepius.
very fine
Kleiner, Hoard 33; SNG France 1736.