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Æ26 - Gordian III ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, depicted from the rear in the characteristic three-quarter back view. The imperial effigy shows folds of the paludamentum over the cuirass, rendered in the provincial style typical of Mysian civic coinage. A Greek imperial titulature legend runs around the periphery of the flan. The portrait, though somewhat worn, retains the youthful features associated with Gordian III's iconography on provincial issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Germe was a small inland city in Mysia, subordinate to the conventus centered at Pergamum, and its civic bronze issues under Gordian III represent some of the more obscure output from that administrative district. The city struck coins sporadically under several third-century emperors, likely timed to local festivals or the needs of petty municipal exchange rather than any sustained civic mint program.
The reference VII.1#141.1 places this within Leschhorn's *Lexikon der Aufschriften*, the primary systematic catalogue for Mysian civic bronzes — a series where die linkages between ostensibly separate issues are frequently discovered upon close examination.