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Æ15 - Trajan ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A lyre depicted facing, centrally positioned within the field, referencing the musical and cultural associations of Thyatira and the wider Lydian region. The ethnic legend ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ (of the Thyateirans) is distributed around the periphery of the coin. The reverse design is rendered in the summary style characteristic of small-module provincial bronze coinage of the Trajanic period. |
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| Mintage | ND (98-117) |
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Thyatira sat at a critical junction in the Hermus valley road system, making it one of the more commercially active cities of Lydia under Roman administration. The city's bronze coinage under Trajan was produced locally under the authority of the conventus centered at Pergamum, which exercised oversight of civic coin production across a broad swath of western Anatolia. Small module bronzes like this one handled day-to-day transactions that Roman silver simply couldn't reach.