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Æ21 - Trajan ΘΕΟΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΝ ΠΕΡΓΑ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΕΟΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΝ ΠΕΡΓΑ (Translation: for the divine Augustus, of the Pergamenes) |
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Pergamum held the title of neokoros — official keeper of the imperial cult — multiple times over, a distinction it competed for aggressively against rival cities like Smyrna and Ephesus. The honorific ΘΕΟΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΝ, applied here to Trajan, reflects that institutional machinery at work: the city's bronze coinage functioned partly as a public declaration of cultic loyalty to Rome, circulating that allegiance through everyday transactions across the conventus.