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Æ35 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Γ ΚΛ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΡΟΥΦΕΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Diameter | 35 mm |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, the god of medicine, stands facing in the field, depicted full-length in a long himation draped about the lower body, his torso partially bare. He holds his attribute, the serpent-entwined staff (kerykeion of Asclepius), in his right hand, with the serpent coiling upward along the staff. The lengthy dedicatory legend of the strategos runs continuously around the entire periphery of the field within a beaded border, reflecting Pergamum's proud status as a thrice-neocorate city. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The magistrate name running through this coin's lengthy legend — Γ ΚΛ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΡΟΥΦΕΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ — identifies a local strategos of equestrian rank (ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ), one of the civic officials who competed fiercely for the honor of sponsoring imperial coinage at Pergamum during this period. Such magistracies were expensive public liturgies, and the men who held them expected their names to survive in bronze. Under Gordian III, Pergamum held the distinction of ΠΡΩΤΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ — three times neokoros — a title granted for maintaining imperial cult temples, and one the city defended aggressively against rival claimants like Smyrna.