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Æ21 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)
| Issuer | Athens (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Reference(s) | X#59866 |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Artemis advancing left, wearing short chiton, with a quiver of arrows slung over her right shoulder, and holding two long torches, one in each hand. The Greek ethnic legend ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ appears in the field, identifying this as a civic issue of Athens. The style is typical of Athenian provincial bronzes struck under Gallienus. |
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| Mint | Athens |
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Athens struck remarkably little bronze coinage under the sole reign of Gallienus, and the city's civic issues from this period are poorly documented — the reference here is a collector-assigned number rather than a standard corpus citation, which reflects how thinly studied this material remains. The Herulian sack of Athens in 267 AD almost certainly disrupted or terminated local mint activity, making it genuinely difficult to establish whether any given Athenian issue from this decade predates that destruction or was struck in its immediate aftermath.