Æ25 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΠΟ ΑΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΝΕΙΚΟΥ ΚΟΛΟΦΩ/ΝΙΩΝ

Colophon's civic bronze issues under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus belong to a period when provincial mints across Asia Minor were effectively filling a vacuum left by increasingly debased imperial silver. The magistrate named in the legend — whose title ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ identifies him as a strategus — was one of the last local officials to authorize autonomous civic coinage from Colophon before the city's minting activity ceased entirely, likely disrupted by the Gothic raids that devastated the Aegean coast in the 260s.