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Æ38 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΙΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝΕΙΚΟΥ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩ
| Issuer | City of Germe (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VII.1#161 |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, seated facing left upon a throne, holding a patera in her extended right hand and a long sceptre in her left hand, with her left arm resting upon a tympanum. A lion is depicted on either side of her throne, serving as her divine attributes and guardians. The composition is characteristic of Anatolian civic coinage of the Severan to Gordian period, reflecting the strong local cult of Cybele in the region of Mysia. The reverse legend identifies the issuing magistrate and the civic ethnic of Germe. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III depended almost entirely on the initiative of its local magistrates — men like Aelius Aristoneikos, whose name appears in the legend as strategos. These provincial bronzes were not minted on imperial authority but funded and organized at the city's own expense, effectively civic propaganda produced to demonstrate loyalty to the reigning emperor while advertising the magistrate's own tenure.
At 38mm, this is among the larger flans Germe produced, suggesting it occupied the top denomination in a locally tiered civic series.