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| Issuer | Perinthus |
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| Year | 200-250 |
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| Diameter | 21.0 mm |
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| Reverse description | Demeter, veiled and clad in long chiton and himation, standing to left; she extends her right hand forward holding grain ears and grasps a long torch or sceptre-staff in her left hand. The city ethnic ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing authority of Perinthus in Thrace. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ |
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Perinthus, seated on the Propontis in Thrace, was one of the most politically active provincial minting cities of the Severan and post-Severan period. Its civic coinage was produced with unusual ambition — the city had long competed with Byzantium for regional prestige, and that rivalry occasionally surfaced in the scale and variety of its bronze output. RPC III 721 falls within a broad mid-Severan to Gordian-era bracket, a period when Perinthus held the title of neokoros, having been granted the honor of maintaining an imperial cult temple.