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Æ26 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΝΑΙΒ (ΑΝ) ΓΕΡΜΗ (ΩΝ)
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of civic fortune, stands facing left in full figure, rendered in the draped style conventional to Asia Minor provincial coinage of the Severan and Gordian periods. She holds a ship's rudder in her right hand, resting it on the ground, symbolising the city's destiny and navigation of fortune, while her left arm cradles a cornucopia overflowing with fruit and grain, emblematic of abundance. The figure is framed by the magistrate's name and ethnic legend arranged around the periphery. The reverse field bears a dotted border, and the coin shows typical die wear consistent with prolonged circulation. |
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Germe was a small Mysian city whose civic bronze issues under Gordian III were administered through the conventus of Pergamum, the regional assize court that governed Roman judicial and administrative affairs across the district. The magistrate name partially preserved in the legend — the naibarch or nabarches, a local office unique to certain Mysian communities — has made this series particularly useful to scholars mapping municipal governance structures in Asia Minor during the Severan and post-Severan periods.
VII.1#136 is among the scarcer documented die pairings from Germe's output under this emperor.