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Æ23 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥϹ ΔΙΟΝΥϹ(ΙΟΥ) / Α-Ρ(Χ) / ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Cotiaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥϹ ΔΙΟΝΥϹ(ΙΟΥ) / Α-Ρ(Χ) / ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ (Translation: under Diogenes, son of Dionysios, archon, of the Cotiaeans) |
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| Mintage | ND (260-268) |
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Cotiaeum, a mid-sized Phrygian city on the road between Synnada and Dorylaeum, struck coins under local magistrates whose names appear in the legends — here, Diogenes Dionysios, whose title ΕΠΙ marks him as the presiding civic official responsible for the issue. These civic bronzes proliferated across Asia Minor precisely because Gallienus, consumed by near-continuous usurpations and frontier crises after Valerian's capture by Shapur I in 260, exerted minimal centralizing control over provincial mints.
The abbreviated magistrate legend across obverse and reverse fields is characteristic of Cotiaeum's later civic issues, where die-cutters distributed the inscription unconventionally around the design rather than in a continuous arc.