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Æ20 - Valerian and Gallienus ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝΩ
| Issuer | Lampsacus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of fortune and civic prosperity, stands facing left in a draped garment, wearing a mural or turreted crown atop her head. She holds a ship's rudder downward in her extended right hand and a cornucopia overflowing with abundance cradled in her left arm. The figure is rendered in the classical provincial Greek style, with drapery folds clearly articulated. The ethnic legend ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝΩ — identifying the issuing city of Lampsacus — is disposed around the figure in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝΩ |
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Lampsacus, positioned on the Hellespontine shore, was among the Greek cities of Mysia that retained the right to strike bronze civic coinage under Roman imperial oversight well into the third century. The joint naming of Valerian and Gallienus as co-emperors — father and son ruling simultaneously from 253 — gave provincial mints a narrow window for exactly this kind of dual-authority issue, one that closed when Valerian was captured by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260, leaving Gallienus to reign alone.