Æ22 - Valerian and Gallienus ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΟΥ ΤΗΙΩΝ

Teos, the Ionian coastal city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of the poet Anacreon, maintained the right to strike civic bronze under the joint reign of Valerian I and his son Gallienus — one of the few periods in the third century when imperial co-rule was formalized rather than contested. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Aurelius Hermogenes, reflects the spread of the Aurelian nomen following Caracalla's universal citizenship grant of 212 AD, a detail that turns up with striking regularity on provincial issues from western Anatolia across this period.