Æ24 - Gallienus sole reign) (ΗΡΑΚΛΙΗΩΝ (sic?) ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Heraclea Pontica was among the older Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast, and by the time of Gallienus's sole reign it had long held neokoros status — the honorific title granted to cities designated as official keepers of an imperial cult temple. The garbled legend ΗΡΑΚΛΙΗΩΝ rather than the standard ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ suggests either a die-cutter working from dictation or a provincial workshop operating without close editorial oversight, a situation increasingly common as central authority fragmented during the Crisis of the Third Century.