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Diassarion - Commodus COL AVG F GERMEN
| Issuer | Germa (Phrygia), Roman Provincial Mint |
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| Year | 182-184 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Commodus facing right, with curly hair rendered in fine detail. The imperial effigy is portrayed with a short beard, consistent with Commodus's early reign portraiture. The legend encircles the bust along the beaded border of the flan. The overall style reflects the provincial die-cutting tradition of Phrygia during the Antonine period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Germa was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Commodus falls into a narrow window — the emperor's titles as recorded on this type, including the Germanic victory cognomen, bracket the issue firmly between his assumption of Germanicus in 172 and the dropping of certain titulature by the mid-180s. RPC IV.2 7274 is known from a very small number of specimens, and SNG von Aulock 13 represents one of the key reference examples that anchors the attribution to this mint at all.