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Æ36 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ οΥ ΚοΙ ΛΕϹΒΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Koinon of Lesbos (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 166-169 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ οΥ ΚοΙ ΛΕϹΒΙΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Koinon of Lesbos was a rare beast among provincial leagues — a federal body that pooled the five major cities of the island under a single issuing authority, striking coins in the name of the collective rather than any one polis. This issue dates to the co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, a constitutional novelty Rome had not seen since the early Principate, and the provincial mints scrambled to establish correct titulature for two living Augusti simultaneously.
The magistrate named in the obverse legend — the strategos — held rotating civic authority across the island's constituent cities, and his name on the coinage was as much a record of office as a minting credential.