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Æ34 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΖΩΙΛΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Heracles reclining to the left upon his lion skin, his muscular nude figure rendered in a semi-recumbent pose. He holds a club upright in his raised right hand and leans upon a vessel or support to his left. The figure occupies the full field of the coin, with the Greek magistrate legend distributed around the periphery within a dotted border, attributing the issue to the strategos Aurelius Zoilos, archon of the Germenians. |
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Germe was a minor Mysian city whose coins are notable primarily for their magistrate inscriptions — the strategos named here, Aurelius Zoilos, is attested on only a handful of surviving bronzes from the Severan period. The ethnic designation ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ confirms the civic identity of an otherwise sparsely documented community within the Pergamene conventus, a judicial district that grouped smaller towns under Roman administrative oversight without granting them equal standing.
Zoilos's Roman gentilicium — Aurelius — almost certainly derives from the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD, which extended citizenship broadly across the empire and triggered a wave of name adoptions throughout Asia Minor.