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Æ30 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ Ϲ ΒΑΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΜ/ΑΧΟΥ / ΜΥ/ΤΙΛΗ/ΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Mytilene (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Valerian I facing right, with paludamentum visible on the shoulder. The imperial effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of Asia Minor, with the laureate wreath clearly articulated. A Greek legend encircles the portrait within a beaded border, identifying the emperor by his full titulature. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Mytilene's civic bronze coinage under the joint reign of Valerian I and Gallienus belongs to the last sustained phase of Greek imperial production on Lesbos — a tradition that would effectively collapse with the wider disruption of the 260s. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Bal. Aristomachos, anchors this piece administratively to the Pergamene conventus, the Roman judicial circuit through which provincial civic minting was implicitly licensed.
Valerian's capture by Shapur I at Edessa in 260 abruptly ended the joint reign dynamic that defines this issue's chronological bracket.