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Æ24 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ Ϲ ΒΑΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΜΑΧ/ΟΥ ΜΥ-ΤΙΛΗ/ΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Mytilene (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Weight | 8.46 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Π ΛΙΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus) |
| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of fortune, depicted standing left in long robes, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm, emblematic of the city's maritime prosperity and abundance. The figure is rendered in the conventional provincial style with a turreted or modius headdress implied by the type. The Greek civic legend is distributed in the field around the figure, broken into multiple lines. The coin's surface is heavily worn and encrusted, consistent with extended circulation and burial. |
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Mytilene, the principal city of Lesbos, retained the right to issue civic bronze under the joint reign largely because such coinage served local exchange needs the imperial mint at Cyzicus had little interest in meeting. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Valerius Aristomachos — anchors this piece to a specific administrative moment in the city's Roman-period history, though his precise term cannot be dated within the reign.
Civic issues from the Pergamene conventus during the 250s and 260s were increasingly disrupted by Gothic raiding along Aegean coasts, making uninterrupted local minting across this entire fifteen-year span unlikely.