Æ20 - Valerian and Gallienus ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Nysa-Scythopolis in Lydia — not to be confused with the Palestinian city of the same root name — retained the right to strike civic bronze under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus, a privilege that dozens of Asian cities scrambled to maintain as imperial authority grew increasingly fractured. The mint's output during this period was modest and regionally distributed, which accounts for the worn, heavily circulated condition typical of surviving civic bronzes from the Ephesian conventus.