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Æ20 - Antoninus Pius ϹΑΠΦΩ ΕΡΕϹ
| Issuer | Mint of Eresus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC IV.2#2482 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Eresus, Lesbos |
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Eresus, a small polis on the southwestern coast of Lesbos, claimed Sappho as a native daughter and leaned heavily on that association in its civic coinage. The poet's birthplace was disputed in antiquity — Mytilene made the same claim — but Eresus pressed its case in bronze, issuing her image repeatedly under the Antonines as a form of civic identity politics. This piece belongs to that deliberate campaign.