Hello
A new issuer is needed for Roman provincial coins; the details are below.
Thank you in advance
- the name of the issuer in English (and if possible also in French and Spanish)
En: Pergamum, City of
Fr: Pergame, Ville de
Es: Pérgamo, Ciudad de
It should be under Roman Provinces > Asia - Conventus of Pergamum > Pergamon, City of
a.k.a. Pergamon, Pergamos
- its Wikidata code (for example, Q854 for Sri Lanka)
Q18986
- the link of one or more Numista records that you want to classify under this issuer
- if necessary, the list of other issuers to be linked by “see also” links
Pergamon in Ancient Greece
- if possible, a brief introduction presenting the history of this issuer with any numismatic considerations useful to the reader
Pergamum or Pergamon was a powerful ancient Greek polis in Mysia. In 88 BC, Mithridates VI Eupator, the King of Pontus, made Pergamon his headquarters in his first war against Rome, in which he was defeated. The victorious Romans made Pergamum a tributary city and later the capital of the Conventus of Pergamum, Province of Asia. In AD 123, Hadrian raised the city to the rank of metropolis. The city issued bronze coinage from the reign of Augustus until the reign of Gallienus, as well as some autonomous silver coinage during Claudius and Hadrian.
