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Æ16 - ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Germe, City of |
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| Year | 100-150 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of the Senate personified, facing right, depicted as a mature male figure with flowing hair, wearing a paludamentum. The Greek legend ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗ(ΤΟ)(Ϲ), identifying the figure as the sacred Roman Senate, is arranged around the bust within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗ(ΤΟ)(Ϲ) |
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Germe was a small Mysian city of modest political weight, and its civic bronze issues from the first half of the second century AD reflect exactly that — limited output, narrow local circulation, and almost no literary record to explain the community's internal administration. RPC III 1771 is one of the few attributed types that anchors the city's coinage chronologically to the Antonine period, though the precise magistrate or civic authority behind the issue remains unidentified in the corpus.