Æ35 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΦΟΝΤ ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ

Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Elagabalus reflects the broader explosion of provincial bronze production that accompanied his reign — a period when Roman provincial mints across Asia Minor competed aggressively for the privilege of honoring a emperor whose legitimacy rested almost entirely on his claimed solar priesthood rather than military or dynastic right. The strategos named in the legend, whose full title appears here, was the locally appointed magistrate responsible for authorizing the issue, a system that makes provincial bronzes from this conventus unusually traceable to specific administrative moments.