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Æ22 - Pseudo-Autonomous ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Perinthus (Thracia) |
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| Year | 201-300 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Upright Heraclean club depicted point downward in the centre of the field, rendered in bold relief with the characteristic knobbly texture of the weapon. The club is shown in isolation without additional symbols. A dotted border frames the design. The encircling legend ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ — identifying Perinthus as a twice-neokoros city — runs around the periphery, attesting to the city's prestigious double grant of the imperial cult temple wardenship. |
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Perinthus earned its first neokorate — the honorific title granted to cities that maintained an imperial cult temple — under Septimius Severus, and a second sometime in the Severan period, likely under Caracalla. The title "Dis Neokoros" advertised both grants simultaneously, a civic status Perinthus guarded jealously against rival Thracian cities, particularly Byzantium, with whom it competed for Roman favor along the western Propontis.
Pseudo-autonomous issues like this one were produced without an emperor's portrait, a deliberate choice that extended the coin's usability across reign changes.