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Æ35 - Septimius Severus ϹΤΡΑ ΑϹΙΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΜΟΓΕΝ ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | The local hero-deity Tyrimnaios on horseback advancing right, depicted nude but for a chlamys billowing behind him, wearing what appears to be a radiate crown, and brandishing a double-headed axe (labrys) in his raised hand. The figure reflects the syncretistic religious traditions of Thyatira, where Tyrimnaios was venerated as a civic patron. The reverse legend, distributed around the field, records the name and title of the local magistrate (strategos) responsible for the coin's issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΤΡΑ ΑϹΙΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΜΟΓΕΝ ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Asiatikos, son of Hermogenes, of the Thyatireans) |
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Thyateira, a Lydian city whose prosperity rested almost entirely on its dyeing and wool-working guilds, was unusually aggressive in cultivating imperial favor during the Severan period. The magistrate named in this coin's legend — Asiатikos Hermogenes — held the office of strategos, a municipal post that by this period carried largely ceremonial weight but still conferred the privilege of authorizing bronze issues in the emperor's name. Provincial bronze of this fabric was struck to facilitate local exchange; Roman silver rarely penetrated market transactions at the street level in western Anatolia.
The Conventus of Pergamum administered a vast swath of the Aegean interior, and Thyateira's issues under Septimius Severus are among the more prolific from that jurisdiction.