Catalog
Æ20
| Issuer | Pergamon (Mysia) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 7 BC |
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| Value | Dichalkon (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and bearded head of Zeus facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curling hair and beard in the Hellenistic style. A dotted border encircles the design. The magistrate's name ΔHMHTPIOY appears in the field, partially flanking the portrait, identifying the issuing civic magistrate Demetrius. |
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| Mintage | ND (133 BC - 7 BC) |
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Pergamon passed to Rome in 133 BC when Attalus III died without an heir and bequeathed his kingdom outright — an act his subjects found sufficiently outrageous that a pretender named Aristonicus spent the next four years fighting a war to reverse it. Bronze civic coinage continued through and after that conflict, produced now under Roman provincial oversight rather than Attalid royal authority, a bureaucratic shift that left little visible trace on the coins themselves.
SNG von Aulock 1380 places this piece within a long municipal sequence that ran well into the Augustan period.