Æ30 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΔΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜ (ΝΩΝ)

The magistrate name in the inscription — Diodoros, serving as strategus — anchors this issue to a specific civic administration at Pergamum during the mid-180s, a period when Commodus was increasingly delegating provincial ceremonial functions to local elites while consolidating his own cult in Rome. Pergamum was already home to the first neokorate temple in Asia, dedicated to Augustus, and civic bronze coinage under named magistrates was a tool of local prestige as much as exchange. The strategus title here reflects the Greek administrative vocabulary that Roman provincial cities retained as a mark of their Hellenic heritage.