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Æ20 - Elagabalus ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ ΠΥΘΙΑ, ΑΥΓΟΥϹ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Thyatira (Lydia) |
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Thyatira's civic bronze issues under Elagabalus were struck during a period when the city was aggressively promoting its Pythian games — a local festival tied to Apollo worship that the notoriously sun-cult-obsessed emperor would have had little objection to funding. The Pythia legend here signals an officially recognized agonistic event, the kind of imperial sanction that required petitioning Rome directly and represented real civic expenditure.
Thyatira sat on a major road junction in Lydia, and its bronze coinage circulated heavily in local market contexts rather than accumulating in hoards.