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Æ39 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Α ΤΥΛΙΟΥ ΚΡΑΤΙΠΠΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Lucius Verus facing right, depicted from the front, wearing a cuirass and paludamentum (military cloak) fastened at the shoulder. The effigy presents the emperor in full military attire, consistent with the iconographic conventions of the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. The Greek legend ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ (Aurelius Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus) runs around the periphery of the flan, identifying the subject. The die work reflects the provincial Greek civic coinage style typical of the Pergamene mint during the Antonine period. |
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| Mintage | ND (161-169) |
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Pergamum held the title of *neokoros* — temple warden to the imperial cult — twice over by this period, a distinction it had pursued aggressively since the reign of Augustus and which it leveraged in every civic rivalry with Smyrna and Ephesus. The magistrate named in the legend, Aulos Tulios Kratippos, is attested in a small number of issues from this period; his strategos tenure can be roughly pinned to the early years of Marcus Aurelius's sole reign before Lucius Verus's death in 169.