Æ24 - Gallienus sole reign) (ϹΤΡΑ Λ ΟΚ ϹΕΒΗΡΟΥ ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΟΝ / ΔΙϹ ΝΕΟΚΟ

Cyzicus held the rare distinction of being a twice-neokorate city — the "ΔΙϹ ΝΕΟΚΟ" in the legend is not decorative but a formal civic claim, meaning the city had twice been granted the honor of hosting an imperial cult temple. That status was fought for, negotiated with Rome, and worn as a mark of prestige on local bronze coinage precisely because it set Cyzicus apart from rival cities in the Conventus.

Gallienus's sole reign began after his father Valerian was captured by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260 — the first Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy. Provincial mints across Asia Minor continued striking civic bronzes throughout this period largely uninterrupted, the eastern provinces remaining administratively stable even as the western empire fractured.