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Æ14 - Valerian and Gallienus ΤΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Diameter | 14 mm |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing left on a ground line with head turned to the right, wings spread in heraldic display. The bird is rendered in the conventional provincial style typical of Bithynian civic bronzes of the mid-third century. The ethnic legend ΤΙΑΝΩΝ, identifying the city of Tium, is distributed in the field around the eagle. The coin shows a dotted border around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΙΑΝΩΝ (Translation: of the Tians) |
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Tium was a minor Bithynian port city whose civic coinage under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus represents one of the last gasps of autonomous Greek-style municipal bronze production in the region. The 250s AD were brutal for Asia Minor — Gallienus spent much of his co-reign fighting incursions on the Danube frontier while his father Valerian was captured by Shapur I of Persia in 260, the first Roman emperor ever taken prisoner by a foreign enemy. That humiliation effectively ended the reign and, with it, most remaining civic bronze output across Bithynian cities.