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Æ35 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ Ϲ Γ ΚΛ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΡΟΥΦΕΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the rear, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and the cuirass elaborately detailed. The youthful imperial effigy is rendered in the characteristic provincial style of the Pergamene mint. The encircling Greek legend runs along the beaded border of the coin. |
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| Mintage | ND (238-244) |
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Pergamum held the title of neokoros — official keeper of the imperial cult — three times by the Severan period, a distinction fiercely competed for among the great cities of Asia Minor and granted only by vote of the Roman Senate. The magistrate named in this issue, Claudius Glycon Rufeinianus, held the hippikos rank, a cavalry-grade honorific within the Roman equestrian order, which places him among the provincial elite administering the city's coin production under Gordian III's short reign.
The triple neokorate designation in the legend was not ceremonial padding — cities used coin legends as a direct medium for advertising civic status to traveling merchants and Roman officials alike.