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Æ22 - Valerian and Gallienus ΤΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped and diademed bust of Empress Salonina facing right, her hair elaborately waved and gathered, wearing a stephane or diadem. The effigy is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Bithynian civic coinage of the mid-third century AD. The bust is set within a beaded border, with the Greek legend disposed around the periphery of the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (253-260) |
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Tium was a minor coastal polis on the Black Sea shore of Bithynia whose civic coinage output was never large, and the joint reign of Valerian I and Gallienus represents one of the few periods when the city struck with any regularity. The co-emperorship itself was born of necessity — Valerian elevated his son Gallienus immediately upon accession in 253, partly to stabilize a frontier situation deteriorating on multiple axes simultaneously. Provincial bronzes naming both rulers were produced across dozens of eastern cities during these years, making attribution to a specific workshop a matter of die linkage rather than obvious typology.
Valerian's capture by Shapur I at Edessa in 260 brought the joint reign to an abrupt end and halted civic issues naming him across the eastern provinces almost immediately.