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Æ22 - Commodus ΑΤΤΑΛΕΑΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Attalea (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 184-187 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Emperor Commodus, with long beard, facing right and seen from the rear, wearing paludamentum over cuirass. The obverse legend reads ΑΥ ΚοΜοΔοϹ in Greek characters, identifying the emperor by his imperial title. The portrait reflects the mature iconographic style of Commodus adopted in provincial coinage during his later reign. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Attalea in Lydia — not to be confused with the better-known Attaleia in Pamphylia — was a modest civic mint that struck bronze under Roman provincial authority during the Antonine and Severan periods. Its issues under Commodus correspond to the years when the emperor was consolidating a personality cult of increasing eccentricity in Rome, though provincial mints in the Pergamene conventus operated with considerable administrative independence and showed little reflection of that turbulence.