Mothone (Meothone, Modon) was a town on a rocky islet at the SW tip of the Messenian peninsula. Ancient blocks, part of the foundation of the bridge which provides the only approach from the land side, are still visible. An acropolis was 2 km to the east. Beside a very small issue of civic coins, the town struck coins only for the Severans.
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| SNG Cop 537 | Mothone, Messenia. AE19 Dichalkon, late 4th c. BC. Hephaestus running right, holding torch / MO within shallow, circular incuse. Imhoof MG 79; SNG Cop 537. | Text | Image |
| BMC 1 | Septimius Severus, AE Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 4.78 g. ΛOY CEYHΡOC ΠE, laureate head right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Tyche Soterios standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. BMC 1; BCD 804 (this coin). | Text | Image |
| Kroll 764 | Septimius Severus, AE22 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 193-211. 3.94 g. AY K Λ CEΠT CEOYHΡOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing left, holding patera and spear. Kroll Agora 764; Horsky Coll. 981; Gress 786. | Text | Image |
| BCD 806 | Julia Domna, AE20 of Mothone, Messenia. 3.55 g. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CE, draped bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing left, holding patera and spear. BCD 806; BMC 2; Mionnet II, 34. | Text | Image |
| BCD 807 | Julia Domna, AE21 Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 3.34 g. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CE, draped bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Aphrodite standing right, holding long staff and apple. BCD 807; Mabbott II 957. | Text | Image |
| BMC 3 | Julia Domna, AE22 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 193-217. 5.16 g. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CE, draped bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla. BMC 3; Gress 802. | Text | Image |
| BMC 3 (2) | Julia Domna, AE22 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 193-217. 5.76 g. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CE, draped bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla. BMC 3; Gress 802. | Text | Image |
| Hunter 1 | Julia Domna AE22 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 193-217. 4.30 g. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CEB, draped bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing right, holding patera and spear, shield at her side. Hunter 1; SNG Hunterian 377; Gress 796. (or BMC 2; SNG Cop 539 with CE instead of CEB) | Text | Image |
| BCD 808 | Caracalla, AE22, Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. AD 198-217. 5.43 g. M AYΡH ANTΩNINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing right, holding patera and sceptre. BCD 808. | Text | Image |
| BCD 809 | Caracalla, AE21 Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 5.25 g. K MAΡ AV ANTΩNINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, The harbour of Mothone, as a semicircular colonnaded wharf with a statue within a square distyle building at each end, statue of Tyche left in the centre of the harbour and galley left with rowers to left at the harbour entrance. BCD 809; Price & Trell 208, fig. 484. | Text | Image |
| Chaix 298 | Caracalla, AE Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. AD 198-217. 3.37 g. M AYΡH ANTΩNINOC, laureate, draped bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing left, holding patera and sceptre. Chaix ("1100 monnaies..") 298. | Text | Image |
| Savoca 91, 405 | Caracalla AE19 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 198-217. 3.29 g. ..ANTωNINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Elpis (?) standing left, holding flower in raised right hand and raising hem of robe with left. Unpublished. Savoca 91, 405. | Text | Image |
| BCD Pelop. 811[3] | Plautilla, AE Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 4.20 g. ΦOVΛB ΠΛAVTIΛΛA, draped bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. BCD Peloponnesos 811.3. | Text | Image |
| BMC 4 | Plautilla, AE Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 4.96 gr. AD 202-205. ΦOYΛB ΠΛAYTIΛΛA, draped bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Uncertain female (Kore?) standing right, extending hands before her. BMC 4; BCD Peloponnesos 810; Dura 2143. | Text | Image |
| BMC 5a | Plautilla, AE Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. AD 202-205. ΦOYΛB ΠΛAYTIΛΛA, draped bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing left, holding patera and spear. BCD 811; BMC 5a. | Text | Image |
| BMC 5b | Plautilla, AE22 of Mothone, Messenia. ΦOYΛB ΠΛAYTIΛΛAN or similar, draped bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla. BMC 5; Missere 174; Gress 803. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet II, 35 | Plautilla, AE22 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 202-205. 4.37 g. ΦOYΛBIAN ΠΛAYTIΛΛAN CE, draped bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing left by altar, holding patera and spear. Mionnet II, 35; Missere 173. | Text | Image |
| BCD 813 | Geta, AE21 Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 4.01 g. Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. BCD 813 (this coin). | Text | Image |
| BCD 813[3] | Geta, AE21 Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 5.14 g. ΛOV CEΠ ΓETAN KAI, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Asklepios standing front, looking left, holding patera and resting on serpent-entwined staff. BCD Pelop. 813.3; Mabbott I, 958; Mionnet Supp IV, 37. | Text | Image |
| BMC 6 | Geta, AE Assarion of Mothone, Messenia. 4.37 g. ΛOV CEΠ ΓETAC KAI, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Athena standing left, holding patera and sceptre. BMC 6; BCD Pelop. 813.1. | Text | Image |
| NAC 100, 1177 | Geta AE19 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 198-209. 4.45 g. ΛOY CEΠ ΓETAN CE, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, emperor standing left, holding sceptre, crowned by Nike standing left behind him. Unpublished reverse. NAC 100, 1177. | Text | Image |
| RomaNum 63, 529 | Geta, AE21 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 198-209. 3.98 g. ΛOY CE ΓETAN CE, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Dionysos standing left, holding kantharos and thyrsos, herm facing to right. Unpublished. Roma Num. 63, 529. | Text | Image |
| Savoca 113, 257 | Geta, AE21 of Mothone, Messenia. AD 198-209. 3.11 g. Illegible legend, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right. / MOΘΩNAIΩN, Homonoia or Tyche standing left by altar, holding patera and cornucopiae. Apparently unpublished. BCD -; BMC -; Gress -. Savoca 113, 257. | Text | Image |
