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Hemiassarion - Traianus ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Germe, City of |
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| Year | 98-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Apollo facing right, with a laurel branch positioned before the deity in the field. The god's youthful features and radiate or laurel-crowned head are rendered in the local provincial engraving tradition. The ethnic legend ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ encircles the field, identifying the issuing civic authority of Germe in Mysia. A beaded border frames the entire reverse composition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Germe was a minor city in Mysia, its civic coinage output modest enough that individual types survive in very small numbers across collections. This hemiassarion belongs to a series struck under Trajan's reign when provincial mints across Asia Minor were asserting local identity through bronze issues too small in denomination to attract imperial interference. RPC III 1766 records only a handful of specimens, making concordance across three major corpora — Copenhagen, France, and RPC — the most useful thing a cataloger can note here.