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Æ22 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ)
| Issuer | Athens (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Triptolemus, the mythological hero of the Eleusinian Mysteries, shown standing or seated in a winged chariot drawn to the left by two serpents. He holds a corn ear in his outstretched right hand and a second corn ear in his left, symbolising his role as the divine disseminator of agriculture. The scene is a canonical type of Athenian civic bronze coinage and reflects the city's close association with the cult of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis. |
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Athens struck remarkably little bronze coinage during the sole reign of Gallienus, and what does survive is poorly documented — X#59865 sits outside the major standard references, suggesting this type was either a small local issue or has simply escaped systematic cataloguing. The city's civic mint was intermittent at best during the third century, squeezed between imperial monopolies on silver and the disruption caused by the Herulian sack of 267 AD, which devastated Athens and almost certainly halted production mid-reign.