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Æ39 - Marcus Aurelius
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 169-175 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Youthful diademed and draped bust of the Roman Senate personified, facing right, with elaborately curled hair. The effigy is rendered in the idealized Hellenistic tradition typical of provincial civic coinage. The Greek legend ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ ('Sacred Senate') is distributed around the bust in the field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Thyatira's bronze coinage under Marcus Aurelius falls within the city's most productive civic minting phase, when the Lydian city leveraged its status as a major commercial hub — particularly its famous dyeing guilds — to fund ambitious local issues. The conventus of Pergamum exercised loose oversight, leaving considerable latitude to individual city mints in design and execution.
At 37 grams, this is a heavy provincial strike even by the standards of Asiatic medallion-weight bronzes, suggesting ceremonial rather than transactional use.