Æ22 - Trajan ΓΑΡΓΑΡΕΩΝ

Gargara was a minor coastal settlement in the Troad, perennially overshadowed by its neighbors and notable in antiquity chiefly for a proverb — "to need all the Gargareans" — meaning to require a vast, undifferentiated crowd. That a community so marginal in ancient estimation produced civic bronze under Trajan is itself informative: the emperor's reorganization of provincial administration in Asia Minor created conditions in which even small poleis asserted their minting privileges, however briefly.

Issues from Gargara are rare in any collection. The conventus of Adramyteum was not a prolific producer, and Gargara's output within it was minimal.