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Æ21 - Valerian and Gallienus ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘΕϹϹΑΛΩΝ, Δ
| Issuer | Koinon of Thessaly (Achaea) |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gallienus facing right, rendered in three-quarter rear view, with the radiate crown clearly visible above the head. The portrait displays the characteristic provincial workmanship of mid-third-century Thessalian coinage, with drapery folds rendered in relief across the left shoulder. A circular Greek legend surrounds the bust within the coin's border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ Π Λ Ε ΓΑΛΛΗΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Publius Licinnius Egnatius Gallienus) |
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The Thessalian Koinon was a federal league revived under Roman patronage, issuing coinage not as a civic authority but as a provincial assembly — one of the few such bodies in Greece permitted to strike bronze under the emperors. The joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus, 253–268, was bracketed by catastrophe: Valerian's capture by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260 left Gallienus sole ruler and the empire fracturing into three competing pieces. Provincial bronzes struck in the father's name after that capture present an unresolved dating problem that no die study has yet fully settled.