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Æ32 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ΜΟϹΧΙΑΝΟΥ ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 184-187 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ΔΗΜΟϹ ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΩΝ |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΜΟϹΧΙΑΝΟΥ ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΩΝ |
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Thyatira, a Lydian city better known to historians through its mention in Revelation as one of the Seven Churches of Asia, was a significant textile and dyeing center whose trade guilds wielded unusual civic influence. The magistrate name in the legend — Moschianus — anchors this issue to a specific strategos whose tenure coincided with Commodus adopting the epithet Hercules around 184 AD, a megalomaniacal self-identification that provincial mints across Asia Minor were expected to reflect and flatter in their bronze coinage.