Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ23 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ϹΤΡΑ Λ ΟΚ ϹΕΒΗΡΟΥ ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ)
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
|---|---|
| Year | 260-268 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ϹΤΡΑ Λ ΟΚ ϹΕΒΗΡΟΥ ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ (Translation: of the strategos Lucius Octavius Severus, of the Cyzicenes, twice neocorate) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Cyzicus (Mysia) |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden to the imperial cult — twice over by this period, a status aggressively lobbied for through embassies to Rome and publicly broadcast on civic coinage. The strategos named in the legend, Lucius Oklatinus Severus, is otherwise poorly documented; his appearance here is one of the few surviving records of his magistracy. Gallienus's sole reign followed his father Valerian's capture by Shapur I in 260, the single most humiliating Roman military disaster in a generation.