Watch List notes:

LESBOS. Mytilene. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Hexassarion (Bronze, 35 mm, 22.75 g, 12 h), Homonoia with Pergamum in Mysia. Valerius Aristomachos, strategos, time of Valerian I, 253-260. ΠΡΩΤΗ ΛЄCBOY MYTIΛHN Turreted and draped bust of the city-goddess to right. Rev. ЄΠΙ C ΒΑΛ ΑΡΙCTOMAXOY - ΟΜΟ/NOIA - MYTI/ΛΗΝAI-ΩΝ KAI ΠΕΡ/ΓΑΜHNΩ/N Tyche of Mytilene, on the left, standing right, holding Artemis with bow, drawing arrow, on her right hand and scepter in her left, facing Tyche of Pergamon, on the right, standing left, holding Asklepios with serpent-staff on her right hand and herm of Dionysos in her left. Franke-Nollé - (unlisted die combination of Vs. B and Rs. 8). Very rare. Pierced and with a flan fault and minor doubling on the obverse, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

The obverse legend of this interesting issue calls Mytilene the 'first city of Lesbos'.