Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ Β ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ

Germe was a small Mysian city of modest political weight, but its bronze coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the competitive civic pride that drove provincial mints across western Anatolia to seek imperial favor following the civil wars of 193 AD. The magistrate name Glycon recorded in the legend — ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ — anchors this piece to a specific strategos, one of the rotating local officials whose tenures help numismatists sequence the city's output across Severus's reign.

Germe's bronze issues are sparsely represented in major collections, partly a function of the city's limited output and partly of its obscurity relative to the great Pergamene conventus neighbors like Cyzicus or Pergamum itself.