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Æ21 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)
| Issuer | Athens (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A four-legged table rendered in perspective, beneath which an amphora is placed. Arranged on the table top, from left to right, are a wreath, a head of Athena facing right, and an owl standing left — all symbols closely associated with the city of Athens and its sacred traditions. The ethnic legend ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing authority. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Athens struck bronze coinage under Gallienus during a period when the city faced genuine existential threat. The Herulian sack of 267 AD devastated Athens — the first time the city had been successfully stormed since Sulla in 86 BC — and local civic coinage effectively ceased in its immediate aftermath. Any surviving examples from this issue were almost certainly struck before that raid, placing them in the final compressed window of Athenian autonomous bronze production under the empire.