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Æ33 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ Ϲ ΑΥΡ ΔΑΜΑ ΑϹΙ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΟΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΤΡΙϹ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Heracles recumbent and facing left, resting upon his lion-skin, his right arm supporting a cantharus (wine cup) and his left hand resting upon his club which is propped across his knee. The scene depicts the hero in his characteristic pose of repose, a popular type on Pergamene civic bronze issues. The reverse field is framed by a multi-line magistrate inscription referencing the strategos and asiarch Aurelius Damas, along with the proud civic boast of Pergamum's triple neocorate status. |
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Pergamum's civic coinage under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus reflects the city's obsessive cultivation of its *neokoros* status — the honorific title awarded to cities that maintained an imperially sanctioned temple cult. The legend referencing *protōn tris* (first, three times) is the city's proud advertisement of having held that distinction three times over, a piece of inter-city rivalry that played out as much on bronze as in the senate at Rome.
The magistrate named in the obverse legend, Aurelius Damas, is attested in a small cluster of issues from this period, helping to anchor the chronology of Pergamene civic bronzes within the otherwise chaotic decade of the 250s–260s.