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Æ31 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ Ϲ ΒΑΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΜΑΧΟΥ ΜΥΤΙΛΗ/ΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Mytilene (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche standing facing with head turned to the left, draped in a long chiton and himation, wearing a turreted crown. In her right hand she holds a herm, and in her left arm she cradles a cornucopia, attributes emblematic of the city's fortune and prosperity. The figure is rendered in the conventional provincial style of the Severan-Gallienic period. The multi-line Greek magistrate legend is disposed around the figure in the field, naming the strategos Valerius Aristomachos and the city of Mytilene. |
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Mytilene's civic bronze issues under the joint reign depended entirely on the goodwill of provincial governors — the magistrate name embedded in this coin's legend, Bal. Aristomachos, is the strategos responsible for authorizing the strike, a local official whose career is otherwise unattested in surviving epigraphic or literary sources. The conventus of Pergamum administered a sprawling network of such civic mints, and Mytilene was among the more active, continuing to produce large bronzes well into the 260s as Roman imperial coinage itself collapsed into the crisis-ridden antoninianus glut.