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| Emittent | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Jahr | 222-235 |
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| Gewicht | 49.20 g |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Laureate and cuirassed bust of the emperor Severus Alexander facing right, the cuirass ornamented with an aegis bearing a Gorgoneion (Gorgon's head) at the centre, depicted in frontal perspective. The imperial effigy is rendered in the official provincial portraiture style characteristic of Lydian civic coinage of the Severan period. The encircling legend in Greek majuscules runs around the periphery of the obverse field. |
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| Averslegende | ΑΥΤΚΡ (sic) Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΒΗΡΟϹ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander) |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Thyatira, a city in Lydia better known from the New Testament as one of the seven churches addressed in Revelation, was a significant textile and dyeing center whose civic pride in monumental bronze coinage was unusually persistent into the third century. The magistrate named in the legend — Lucius Marcius Pollianus — served as strategos, the annually appointed civic official whose name authenticated the issue and whose family connections likely funded part of the striking costs.
At 50mm, these large civic bronzes required considerable die pressure and frequently show uneven flow at the flan edges — not a quality failure but a structural consequence of the metal volume involved.