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Æ16 - Commodus ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 184-187 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Commodus, bearded, draped in paludamentum over cuirass, facing right and seen from the rear in three-quarter view. The emperor is depicted with a long beard, a characteristic of his later portraiture. The obverse legend encircles the bust in Greek characters. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Thyatira, a Lydian city better known to numismatists for its prolific civic bronze output than for any single remarkable issue, was economically tied to the textile and dyeing trades — the same guilds mentioned in Acts 16 in connection with Lydia of Thyatira. Civic coinage under Commodus from this mint clusters tightly in the mid-180s, likely reflecting a period of municipal administrative activity rather than any imperial directive.
Commodus's eastern provincial bronzes are frequently underrepresented in major collections relative to his official Rome mint output.