Cistophorus

at that city to provide the Attalid kingdom with a substitute for Seleucid coins and the tetradrachms of Philetairos.

[1] It continued to be minted and circulated by the Romans with different coin types and legends down to the time of Septimius Severus, long after the kingdom was bequeathed to Rome.

[2] It owes its name to a figure, on the obverse, of the sacred chest (Latin: cista) of Dionysus.

[4] In addition, the evidence of hoards suggests that it did not travel outside the area which Pergamum controlled.

Attalid kings were unable to portray themselves as a charismatic and militaristic authority like the other Hellenistic rulers, as the kingdom during reign of Eumenes II received much of its power practically as a Roman gift.