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Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΒΑΧΙΟΥ, ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#77613 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A tetrastyle temple depicted in elevation, its four columns framing the cult image of Apollo-Tyrimnaios standing to the left within the intercolumniation. The deity holds a leafy branch in one hand and a double axe (labrys), the latter being the distinctive attribute of this syncretic Lydian-Hellenic divinity worshipped at Thyatira. A stepped podium supports the structure. The surrounding Greek legend records the name and title of the local strategos responsible for the coin issue. |
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Thyatira, a prosperous city in Lydia known for its dye trade and craft guilds, was administratively answerable to the Pergamene conventus — the Roman judicial circuit through which the governor's authority was channeled into local coinage decisions. The magistrate named in the obverse legend, Glykon son of Bachios, held the office of strategos, the civic post responsible for authorizing and overseeing this bronze issue. Provincial bronzes of this size from Thyatira are not especially common, and named magistrate attributions help anchor otherwise difficult chronological sequences within Severan civic coinage.