| URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/86721 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
| Volume | X |
| Number | — (unassigned; ID 86721) |
| Province | Asia |
| Subprovince | Conventus of Pergamum |
| Region | Lesbus |
| City | Mytilene |
| Reign | Valerian and Gallienus |
| Magistrate | Val(erius?) Aristomachos (strategos) |
| Alliance with | Ephesus; Pergamum |
| Obverse inscription | ΖΕΥϹ ΒΟΥΛΑΙΟϹ |
| Edition | Ζεὺς Βουλαῖος |
| Translation | Zeus Boulaios |
| Obverse design | bearded head of Zeus Boulaios, left |
| Reverse inscription | ΘΕΟΙ ΑΚΡΑΙΟΙ ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ |
| Edition | θεοὶ Ἀκραῖοι Μυτιληναίων |
| Translation | Acraean gods, of the Mytileneans |
| Reverse design | the three Theoi Akraioi: one stands facing, raising hand in greeting and holding sceptre; on either side the two other gods stand, each holding a sceptre |
| Metal | copper-based alloy |
| Reference | Franke & Nollé —, Kampmann — |
| Specimens | 1 (0 in the core collections) |
| Note | See also https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/61403. |
Specimens of this coin type
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Florence | A.B. Cook, Zeus, p. 873, no. 10, cited 'L. Holstein on Steph. Byz. s.v. L. Holstein on Steph. Byz. s.v. Μυτιλήνη (ed. Lipsiae 1825 ii. 457) says : 'In Cimeliarchio Mediceo nummus habetur, in cuius uno latere circum Iovem, Neptunum et Plutonem: ΘΕΟΙ ΑΚΡΑΙΟI ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ. in averso circum caput Iovis: ΖΕΥϹ ΒΟΥΛΑΙΟϹ quinam sint Θεοὶ ἀκραῖοι ... docet Pollux lib. ix. cap. 5. his verbis: Τὰ δὲ δημόσια, ἀκρόπολις. ἣν καὶ ἄκρον ἂν εἴποις καὶ πόλιν. καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὑτῇ θεοὺς. ἀκραίους καὶ πολιεῖς.’ This coin, cited by numismatists from Eckhel Doctr. num. vet.2 ii. 504 to Head Hist. num.1 p. 488 inclusive, has disappeared from Head Hist. num.2 p. 562f. |
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