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Æ21 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Ι ΠΩΛΙ ΤΟ Β ΠΕΡΓΑ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, her hair elaborately dressed and piled on the top of the head in the style typical of Antonine-period imperial portraiture. The effigy is rendered in the round with visible drapery folds at the shoulder. The obverse legend ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ encircles the bust, identifying her as Augusta. The flan surface shows heavy patination consistent with provincial bronze coinage of the mid-second century AD. |
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| Mint | Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey |
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The magistrate named in the legend — a strategos serving his second term at Pergamum — places this issue within a civic minting tradition that the city jealously maintained throughout the imperial period. Pergamum had been the first city in Asia to receive permission to establish an imperial cult, under Augustus, and its civic bronze issues carried that prestige forward for generations. The strategos eponym system meant each issue was tied to a specific officeholder, giving modern researchers a rare chronological anchor that most provincial bronzes lack entirely.