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Æ43 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡοΥ Β ΦΛΩΡοΥ ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 191-192 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped and cuirassed bust of Emperor Commodus to right, seen from the rear, laureate, with long and wide beard; the paludamentum is visible over the cuirass. The obverse legend encircles the imperial effigy in Greek characters, identifying the emperor by his full titulature. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Thyatira, a Lydian city better known from Paul's letter to the churches of Asia than from its coinage, was a significant producer of large civic bronzes under the Antonines. This piece falls within the final year of Commodus's reign — he was strangled on New Year's Eve 192 AD — and the magistrate name in the legend, Artemidoros son of Phlorou, anchors it to a specific local administrative moment otherwise unattested in the literary record.
The double ethnic formula in the legend reflects Thyatira's practice of civic display through coinage weight and module at a scale that few Asian mints matched.