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Æ21 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΜΟϹΤΗΝΩΝ)
| Issuer | Mostene (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Mint | Mostene, Lydia |
| Mintage | ND (260-268) |
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Mostene was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Gallienus's sole reign falls squarely in the chaotic decade when the Roman empire fractured into three competing states. The city continued striking bronze for local exchange through that upheaval, answering to no usurper — it remained within the central empire's orbit throughout, part of the Asian provinces that Gallienus managed to hold while the Gallic Empire split off in the west and Palmyra rose in the east.
The Conventus of Smyrna administered civic coinage rights across a cluster of inland Lydian communities, Mostene among the smaller participants. Issues from this city are sparsely documented; the X# reference reflects how thinly it falls in the standard corpora.