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Æ24 - Valerian and Gallienus ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Cyzicus, modern-day Kapıdağ Peninsula, Turkey |
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Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — multiple times over, and the boast embedded in the city's ethnic here reflects that accumulated honor rather than any single grant. The joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus, which this piece dates to, was among the most administratively fractured in Roman history: the empire was simultaneously fighting the Persians in the east, Alemanni in the west, and suffering the first major outbreak of the Antonine Plague's successor epidemic. Provincial bronze kept local economies functioning when central silver coinage was being debased into near-worthlessness.