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Æ31 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΔΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 184-187 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Commodus facing right, depicting him with a short beard, clad in cuirass and paludamentum, the figure presented from a rear three-quarter perspective. The effigy displays the characteristic military regalia befitting an imperial portrait of the Antonine period. The circular Greek legend ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑ ΑΥ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ runs around the periphery of the field, identifying the emperor with his abbreviated imperial titulature. The style is consistent with provincial bronze coinage struck under the authority of the Pergamene mint during the reign of Commodus. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Pergamum's civic coinage under Commodus was intimately tied to the office of the strategos, the annually appointed magistrate whose name appeared on the coin as both a mark of civic pride and personal accountability. Diodoros, named here, held that position during a window when Commodus was consolidating his image as a new Hercules — a theology the emperor imposed on the empire's eastern cities with increasing aggression after 184 AD. Pergamum, as seat of the imperial cult in Asia and home to the great Asclepion, had particular reason to play along carefully.