Æ32 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Κ ΤΕΡΤΥΛΛΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Pergamum's claim to three neokorate titles — recorded in the inscription on this very coin — was the product of decades of competitive civic one-upmanship with Smyrna and Ephesus across the koine of Asia. The third neokorate was granted under Elagabalus, making coins that advertise it a product of the years immediately following his assassination in 222. The strategos Tertullus, named in the magistrate formula, is otherwise unattested outside the numismatic record.