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Æ20 - Claudius ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝ ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΟΙ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 50-54 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed laureate effigy of the Emperor Claudius facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style with naturalistic portraiture. The neck is truncated, and the bust is slightly draped at the shoulder. The circular legend surrounds the portrait in Greek characters. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thyatira, a Lydian city best known today from the Book of Revelation's seven churches, struck this issue under Claudius to honor Agrippina the Younger following her elevation to Augusta in 50 AD — one of the very few occasions a living empress received that title during her husband's reign. The city's loyalty here was not purely ceremonial; Thyatira depended heavily on imperial goodwill for its guild-based textile economy, and civic bronze issues honoring the imperial household were a pragmatic form of political alignment.
Agrippina was poisoned in 59 AD on Nero's orders. Issues bearing her name from Claudius's final years are correspondingly rare survivors of a damnatio atmosphere that suppressed her memory across much of the empire.