Æ21 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)

Athens struck remarkably little bronze under Gallienus during his sole reign, a period when the city faced the catastrophic Gothic raid of 267 AD — Herulian forces sacked Athens so thoroughly that civic coin production effectively ceased. What survives from immediately before that destruction represents some of the last autonomous Athenian bronze of the classical civic tradition.