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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Themes & Provenance| > |Denominations| > |Cistophori| > GS76188
Ephesos, Ionia, 90 - 89 B.C.
|Cistophori|, |Ephesos,| |Ionia,| |90| |-| |89| |B.C.|, The torch is an attribute of Artemis and a civic symbol of Ephesus.

In 89 B.C., Mithridates VI of Pontus invaded Bithynia and Cappadocia beginning the First Mithridatic War.
GS76188. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm, Kleiner Dated 46, Pinder 36, SNG Cop 326, Cohen DCA 325, BMC Ionia -, SNGvA -, SNG Fitzwilliam -, VF, dark uneven toning on reverse, obverse struck with a worn die, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, weight 12.674g, maximum diameter 27.7mm, die axis 0o, 90 - 89 B.C.; obverse cista mystica with half-open lid, from which a snake emerges, all within wreath of ivy with berries; reverse bow-case ornamented with an apluster, strap lower right, flanked on each side by a snake with head erect, serpent-entwined staff above between snakes' heads, MΕ (year 45) over ΕΦΕ on left, flaming torch on right; SOLD




  







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