Person GND

Name

Ger. Leon

Strategos in Teos/Ionia during the reigns of Septimius Severus (and Caracalla?).

His name combined with the title of Strategos appears on coins from the Severan period with portraits of Julia Domna [F. Imhoof-Blumer, Kleinasiatische Münzen (1901) p. 101 no. 31] and Geta (SNG Copenhagen no. 1526) on the obverse, and on pseudo-autonomous coins, such as BMC Ionia p. 318 no. 64.

Lit.: W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 642 s. v. Leon (AD 193-217); Th. Corsten (ed.), Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V A. Coastal Asia Minor (2010) p. 267 s. v. Leon (no. 15) (c. AD 193-211).

Types

Strategos Info

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5a-41444

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