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Æ23 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ)
| Issuer | Apollonia ad Rhyndacum (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of civic fortune, depicted standing to the left in long chiton and himation, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm — the standard attributes of the city's tutelary deity as found on Apollonia ad Rhyndacum civic bronzes. The Greek ethnic legend of the issuing city is distributed around the field. The reverse type reflects the common provincial iconographic programme associating city fortune with maritime and agricultural prosperity. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Apollonia ad Rhyndacum, a small Mysian city on the river Rhyndacus in the conventus of Cyzicus, continued striking civic bronze well into Gallienus's sole reign — the years after Valerian's catastrophic capture by Shapur I in 260 AD left the eastern provinces scrambling to assert continuity under the surviving Augustus. Many cities in the Cyzicus conventus issued bronze precisely because the central mint was consumed with military coinage; local issues filled the gap in everyday exchange. This piece belongs to a poorly documented civic series, with X#61852 reflecting its relative obscurity in the standard references.