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Æ30 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝΕΙΚ ΓΕΡΜ (Ν)
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝΕΙΚ ΓΕΡΜΗ(Ν) (Translation: under Aristonikos, of the Germeans) |
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Germe was a small Mysian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of local magistrates willing to fund issues at their own expense — the magistrate name preserved in this legend, Aristoneikos, is the clearest evidence we have that he existed at all. The honorific ΓΕΡΜ(Ν), almost certainly referencing a Germanicus title tied to Gordian III's campaigns against the Persians and their allied frontier pressures, was a common piece of flattery from provincial mints seeking imperial favor.
The Conventus of Pergamum administered a cluster of such minor civic mints, most of which ceased production entirely after Gallienus centralized bronze coinage in the 260s.