Æ33 - Severus Alexander Ε ΑΡ ΑΥ ΖΩϹΙΜΟΥ ΜΗΘΥΜΝΑΙΩΝ

Methymna was the second city of Lesbos, consistently overshadowed by Mytilene yet stubbornly productive in its civic coinage through the Severan period. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend — Zosimos — anchors this piece to a specific local official whose tenure under Alexander's reign represents one of the few surviving administrative traces of the city's Roman-era governance. Methymna's coinage under Alexander is scarce relative to larger provincial centers, a reflection of the city's modest but independent civic ambitions rather than any disruption to the mint.