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Æ23 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΤΙΜΕΛΗϹ ΑΦΡΟΔΙϹΙΕΩΝ)
| Issuer | Aphrodisias (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Reference(s) | X#60150 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Reclining river god depicted facing left, his semi-nude figure languidly posed with the right hand holding a reed and the left arm resting upon a rocky outcrop, a composition emblematic of local fluvial divinity in the coinage of Aphrodisias. The design occupies the full field of the flan in the manner of provincial bronze reverses. The encircling legend names the local magistrate responsible for the issue and identifies the civic community. The style is consistent with mid-third century Carian provincial coinage. |
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Aphrodisias held an unusually privileged relationship with Rome — the city had been granted formal freedom and tax immunity by Augustus, a status it jealously maintained and periodically renegotiated well into the imperial period. Local bronze issues like this one were struck under civic authority rather than imperial directive, with the magistrate's title ΤΙΜΕΛΗϹ (roughly equivalent to a censor) named explicitly as issuing authority. That administrative specificity is what makes provincial bronzes from Aphrodisias useful historical documents.
Gallienus's sole reign followed the catastrophic capture of his father Valerian by Shapur I in 260 AD — the first Roman emperor taken prisoner in battle.