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Æ27 - Gordian III ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, rendered from a rear three-quarter perspective emphasizing the paludamentum and military cuirass. The imperial effigy is boldly struck in high relief at the centre of the flan. A Greek legend encircles the bust, reading from upper left to right around the field. The coin is struck on an irregular flan with a slightly uneven border, characteristic of provincial bronze issues of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III represents one of the more obscure provincial series from the Pergamene conventus. The city spelled its ethnic as ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ, a detail that has helped numismatists distinguish its output from similarly named mints. Provincial bronze of this weight from inland Mysia circulated hyperlocally — functionally useless beyond the immediate region, and rarely exported even in antiquity, which explains why surviving examples tend to show concentrated provenance patterns from western Anatolian excavation sites.