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                <title>Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Severus Alexander from Methymna in Lesbus</title>
                                    <editor>Jerome Mairat supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model</editor>
                <editor>Joe Shephard supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model</editor>
                                    <funder>John Fell OUP Research Fund</funder>
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                    <name>Jerome Mairat</name>
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                                <placeName type="ancient" key="Methymna" ref="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550738">Methymna</placeName>
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                            <origDate datingMethod="#julian" notBefore-custom="222" notAfter-custom="235">Severus Alexander</origDate>
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            <p>Data sourced from Roman Provincial Coinage Online: RPC Online (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk). A complete list of the epidoc files available can be found at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/epidoc.</p>
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                <date>2025-04-26 17:41:05</date>
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                <desc>Obverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/248689"/> for more details</desc>
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                <desc>Reverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/248689"/> for more details</desc>
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						<persName type="empress">
						    <name type="nomen">Ἰουλία</name>
						    <name type="cognomen">Μαμαία</name>
						    <name type="title" key="Augusta"><expan><abbr>Σεβα</abbr><ex>στή</ex></expan></name>
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						<persName>
						    <roleName type="official" key="archon">
						      <expan><abbr>ἐ</abbr><ex>πὶ</ex></expan>
						      <expan><abbr>Ἄρ</abbr><ex>χοντος</ex></expan>
						  	</roleName>
						    <name type="nomen" key="Aurelius"><expan><abbr>Αὐ</abbr><ex>ρηλίου</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="cognomen" key="Zosimos">Ζωσίμου</name>
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						<placeName type="city" key="Methymna">
						    <name type="ethnic" key="Methymnians">Μηθυμναίων</name>
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                    <ab n="obverse">Julia Mamaea Augusta</ab>
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                    <ab n="reverse">under archon Aurelius Zosimos, of the Methymnians</ab>
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                <div type="commentary" subtype="face" n="obv"><p>draped bust of Julia Mamaea, right</p></div>
                <div type="commentary" subtype="face" n="rev"><p>Athena standing facing, head right, holding spear and resting on shield at her feet, and Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding long thyrsus and cantharus over panther at his feet, right</p></div>
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                        <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/52307">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/52307</ref>
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