Æ36 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΠΟ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΛΕΟΝΤΕΩϹ, ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ

Mytilene, the principal city of Lesbos, retained remarkable autonomy under Roman rule and continued issuing civic bronze well into the Severan period. The magistrate named in this legend — Pouleios Leonteus, serving as strategus — is one of several local officials whose names appear across the Mytilenaean series, providing a rough internal chronology that numismatists have used to sequence issues when imperial dating alone proves insufficient.

The Conventus of Pergamum administered a broad swath of western Asia Minor, but individual cities within it maintained distinct civic identities in their coinage. Mytilene's issues are notably large in module for the region.