Æ25 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΦΡΟΔΙ/ϹΙΕΩΝ)

Aphrodisias enjoyed an unusually privileged relationship with Rome — the city held the status of a free city exempt from Roman taxation, a distinction it fiercely protected through successive imperial reigns. Under Gallienus, with the empire fracturing under the pressure of simultaneous frontier crises and the breakaway Gallic Empire, provincial civic minting in the Greek east continued largely undisturbed, a small administrative continuity amid near-total strategic collapse. This issue belongs to the final phase of that tradition before civic bronze coinage across Asia Minor effectively ceased.