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Æ20 - Valerian and Gallienus ΠΡΟΥϹΙΕΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΥΠΙΩ, (ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΙ?)
| Issuer | Prusias ad Hypium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | An inscribed prize crown or stephanos, depicted as a decorative wreath-form crown with dotted ornamentation and a prominent palm branch rising from its centre, set within a dotted border. The agonistic crown is shown frontally in the field, a motif associated with civic games or festival honours celebrated at Prusias ad Hypium. The surrounding Greek legend identifies the issuing city. The design is typical of the civic bronze coinage of Bithynian cities honouring imperial co-rulers. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΡΟΥϹΙΕΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΥΠΙΩ, (ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΙ?) (Translation: of the Prusians ad Hypium, Augusti) |
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Prusias ad Hypium — modern Konuralp in northwestern Turkey — was a minor Bithynian city that nonetheless maintained an active civic coinage through the joint reign of Valerian I and his son Gallienus, a period marked by near-continuous military crisis on multiple frontiers simultaneously. The city's coins naming both Augusti belong to the window before Valerian's catastrophic capture by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260, an event that effectively ended Roman provincial civic bronze coinage across much of the Greek East within a generation.