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Æ26 - Philip I ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VIII#20169 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Two nymphs stand facing one another in a symmetrical composition, each pouring water from a tilted jar resting upon a column; between them stands an amphora, alluding to the sacred springs or water cult associated with the city of Germe. The figures are rendered in the elongated, hieratic style characteristic of Mysian provincial bronzes of the Philippan period. The ethnic legend ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ fills the field, identifying the issuing city. |
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Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Philip I falls within the Pergamene conventus — the Roman administrative district centered on Pergamum that handled judicial and, indirectly, monetary oversight for dozens of small urban mints across the region. Philip's reign saw a notable surge in provincial bronze output across Asia Minor, partly because his silver antoninianus was debasing rapidly and local civic issues filled practical exchange gaps that Rome's own currency could not reliably cover at small denominations.
The city's Greek ethnic ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ confirms the municipally-driven character of this issue — self-authorizing civic identity through coinage was one of the few expressions of autonomy left to such communities under the later empire.