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Æ29 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΑΥΡΗ ΠΡΩΤΕΟΥ ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Mytilene (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Marcus Aurelius, bearded, facing right, with curly hair rendered in typical Antonine style. The portrait displays naturalistic modeling of the face and beard consistent with provincial coinage of the Conventus of Pergamum. A Greek legend surrounds the bust in the field. The truncation of the bust shows drapery over the left shoulder. |
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| Reverse description | A bearded male figure, likely a heroized or deified local figure (possibly Deinomachos), standing nude to the left, holding a patera in his extended right hand over a prow-shaped altar decorated with a bucranium. In his left hand he holds a transverse sceptre along with a chlamys draped over the arm. The composition reflects the honorific iconography typical of civic coinage from Lesbos under the Antonine dynasty. The Greek magistrate legend surrounds the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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