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Æ17 - Antoninus Pius ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ, ΦΑΥ (in lower r. field)
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
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| Weight | 3.46 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II (the Younger) facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and drawn back, rendered in typical provincial Greek style. The effigy occupies the central field, with the encircling Greek legend reading ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ΝΕΑ around the periphery. The portrait displays the characteristic idealized treatment of imperial women seen on Mysian civic bronze coinage of the mid-second century AD. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Germe was a minor Mysian city in the Pergamene conventus whose civic coinage is sparsely documented and frequently misattributed. The abbreviation ΦΑΥ appearing in the lower right field almost certainly references a local magistrate — a convention common to Asia Minor bronze issues where the abbreviated name of the responsible official anchored civic accountability to the physical coin. Most examples from Germe are poorly struck on irregular flans, a product of modest municipal resources rather than any specific mint disruption.