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Æ21 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)
| Issuer | Athens (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ (Translation: of the Athenians) |
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Athens struck remarkably little bronze coinage during the sole reign of Gallienus, and what exists tends to cluster around the years immediately following the Herulian sack of 267 AD — a raid that gutted the lower city, burned the Agora, and pushed the surviving population behind a hastily constructed wall built partly from the rubble of public monuments. Whether this piece predates that destruction or reflects a tentative resumption of civic life afterward is a question the archaeology has not settled cleanly.