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Æ16 - Commodus ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 184-192 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Heracles facing right, head laureate and assimilated to the bearded portrait of Emperor Commodus, with the Nemean lion skin draped about the neck and shoulders in the characteristic Heraclean manner. The portrait reflects the emperor's well-documented identification with Heracles during the later years of his reign. The bust is rendered in a provincial style typical of Lydian civic coinage of the Antonine period. |
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| Reverse description | A tall, slender tripod cauldron depicted in the field, standing upright on three legs with a bowl supported at the apex; the object is rendered frontally in a plain, linear provincial style. The tripod, a symbol closely associated with Apollo and used as a sacred cult object at oracular and religious centres, was a common civic type on the bronze coinage of Thyatira in Lydia. The encircling ethnic legend ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΩΝ runs around the device. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΩΝ |
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