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Æ23 - Marcus Aurelius ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Mytilene (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 175-177 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ |
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| Mint | Mytilene, Lesbos, modern-day Mytilene, Greece |
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Mytilene's bronze coinage under Marcus Aurelius falls within a narrow window bracketed by two significant events: the conclusion of the Parthian War in 166 and the death of co-emperor Lucius Verus, and then the Germanic campaigns that consumed Marcus almost continuously through his final decade. Provincial civic mints like Mytilene operated under the Pergamene conventus — one of the Roman judicial circuits in Asia — meaning local magistrates retained meaningful control over civic bronze issues while the imperial portrait lent the coins their dating authority.
Lesbos had been a formally free city since the Republican period, a status Mytilene guarded jealously and occasionally leveraged for reduced tribute obligations.