Æ25 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ϹΤ ϹΕΞ ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ ΤΗΙΩΝ)

Teos, the Ionian coastal city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, maintained an active civic bronze coinage well into the third century under Roman provincial administration. By the sole reign of Gallienus — after his father Valerian was captured by Shapur I at Edessa in 260 and never returned — many eastern mints and civic issues were operating under increasing fiscal and military strain. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend, Lucius, is otherwise unattested in the numismatic record for Teos, making this issue a minor prosopographical data point for the city's administrative history.