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Æ21 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)
| Issuer | Athens (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Athena facing right, wearing a crested Attic helmet decorated with relief ornament. The portrait is rendered in the classical Greek civic tradition, with fine hair locks visible beneath the helmet rim. A dotted border frames the flan. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing left in full figure, extending her right hand to present a small Nike (Victory), while her left arm supports a round shield resting on her shoulder and a transverse spear held diagonally across her body. To the left of the figure, a serpent coils upward. The entire composition is enclosed within a laurel wreath. The ethnic legend ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ arcs around the field. |
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Athens struck remarkably little coinage during the sole reign of Gallienus, and what exists reflects a city under genuine external pressure. The Herulian sack of 267 AD devastated Athens — the invaders breached the Valerian Wall and burned much of the lower city, an event so traumatic that Athenian civic life, including local coin production, effectively ceased in its aftermath. This piece almost certainly predates that catastrophe.