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Æ22 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)
| Issuer | Athens (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Weight | 5.94 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted and draped bust of Athena facing right, wearing a crested Attic helmet with cheek guards. The goddess is depicted with strong, classical features; her neck and shoulder are visible beneath a draped garment. No legend appears on the obverse. The style reflects the local Athenian civic coinage tradition of the Imperial period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Athens struck bronze coinage only intermittently under Roman rule, and issues from Gallienus's sole reign — after the capture of his father Valerian by Shapur I in 260 AD — fall into an already sparse provincial sequence. The Athenian mint was never a high-volume operation in this period; survival in any condition is genuinely uncommon.
Valerian's capture at the Battle of Edessa remains the only instance of a reigning Roman emperor being taken prisoner by a foreign power.