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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>
                                    <funder>John Fell OUP Research Fund</funder>
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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/245558"/> 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/245558"/> for more details</desc>
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						<persName type="emperor">
						    <rs type="title" key="Imperator"><expan><abbr>Αὐ</abbr><ex>τοκράτωρ</ex></expan></rs>
						    <name type="title" key="Caesar"><expan><abbr>Κ</abbr><ex>αῖσαρ</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="praenomen" key="Marcus"><expan><abbr>Μ</abbr><ex>ᾶρκος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="nomen" key="Aurelius"><expan><abbr>Αὐ</abbr><ex>ρήλιος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="cognomen" key="Severus"><expan><abbr>Σε</abbr><ex>ουῆρος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="cognomen" key="Alexander">Ἀλέξανδρος</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>
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						    <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">Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander</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>laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear</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/52357">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/52357</ref>
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