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Æ33 - Severus Alexander ΕΠ ϹΤ ΛΟΛΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΗΘΥΜΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Methymna (Lesbos), civic mint |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Diameter | 33 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of the emperor Severus Alexander facing right, seen from the rear in three-quarter view, a characteristic provincial rendering emphasizing the military paludamentum. The obverse legend encircles the imperial effigy, identifying the emperor by his full titulature in Greek characters. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of fortune and civic prosperity, stands facing with head turned to the left. She wears a kalathos (modius-like basket crown) atop her head and is depicted holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left, attributes emblematic of good fortune and abundance. The reverse legend names the presiding strategos Lollianus and the issuing civic community of the Methymnaeans, arranged around the field in the standard formula for Greek Imperial civic coinage of Asia Minor. |
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