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Æ20 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠ ΠΕΙΟΥ ΟΛΥΜ
| Issuer | Daldis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Demos facing left, rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of Asia Minor civic coinage. The portrait is encircled by the civic legend identifying the issuing community. The die work is characteristic of the Sardis conventus workshop during the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus. |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of Fortune, standing left in full figure, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left. The magistrate's name and title appear in the field and legend, attesting to the civic official responsible for the issue. The composition follows the standard provincial Tyche type widely employed in the cities of Lydia during the mid-third century AD. |
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Daldis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under the joint reign of Valerian I and Gallienus reflects a brief window of provincial minting activity before the catastrophic events of 260 AD — when Valerian was captured by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa, becoming the only Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy. That humiliation effectively ended the father-son co-regency as a functioning political unit, and provincial bronze issues commemorating both men simultaneously ceased abruptly.