Æ25 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ)

Aezani, a Phrygian city whose loyalty to Rome made it a reliable conduit for imperial propaganda in the eastern provinces, struck heavily during Gallienus's sole reign after his father Valerian was captured by Shapur I at Edessa in 260 AD — the first Roman emperor ever taken prisoner by a foreign enemy. The humiliation triggered a cascade of usurpations across the empire, and civic mints like Aezani continued pumping out bronze coinage partly to assert that legitimate authority still functioned.

Aezani's issues under Gallienus are catalogued sparsely, and X#63069 sits in a reference corpus that remains incompletely die-studied.