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Æ27 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΔΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 184-187 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus, the god of wine, stands facing left in a relaxed contrapposto pose at the centre of the field. He holds a bunch of grapes in his outstretched right hand and a tall thyrsus — the fennel-topped staff associated with his cult — in his left. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition befitting Pergamum's artistic heritage. A Greek legend naming the local strategos Diodoros encircles the reverse field. |
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| Mintage | ND (184-187) |
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The magistrate named in this issue — Diodoros, serving as strategos of Pergamum — held office during a period when the city was navigating the increasingly erratic demands of Commodus, who had begun styling himself as a living Hercules by the mid-180s. Civic bronze of this type was produced entirely at local expense and initiative, with the strategos personally sponsoring the emission as a form of public munificence. The office itself carried no Roman appointment; it was a Pergamene magistracy, which makes the die-cutter's decision to lead with the magistrate's title a pointed assertion of civic identity under an emperor who tolerated little independent posturing.