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Æ43 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΙΟΥΛ ΑΝΘΙΜΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ, ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΤΡΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#649 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΙΟΥΛ ΑΝΘΙΜΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ, ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΤΡΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Iulius Anthimus, of the Pergamenes, first thrice neocorate) |
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Pergamum's claim to be "first and thrice neokoros" — custodian of three imperial cult temples — was a hard-won civic status that the city defended aggressively against rivals like Smyrna and Ephesus. The magistrate named in the inscription, Julius Anthimus, is attested on a small group of issues, allowing numismatists to cluster this striking within his term of office as strategos. These large civic bronzes were not everyday currency; at 40-plus grams they functioned closer to prestige medallions, circulated within the apparatus of festival and cult rather than the market.