Æ22 - Valerian and Gallienus ΑΔΡΑΗΝΩΝ (ΡΝΑ)

Adraa — modern Deraa in southern Syria — was a minor Decapolis city that punched above its weight in civic coinage during the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus. The city's bronze issues from this period reflect the last gasp of autonomous provincial minting in the region; after the Palmyrene crisis of the 260s fragmented Roman authority across the eastern provinces, civic bronze production in Arabia effectively ceased. This piece dates to a window when the empire was simultaneously managing Sassanid pressure on the eastern frontier and the catastrophic capture of Valerian at Edessa in 260.