Æ26 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙϹΙΕΩΝ)

Aphrodisias held an unusual position among Anatolian cities under Roman rule — its civic identity was bound tightly to the cult of Aphrodite, and the city leveraged that religious prominence to extract notable privileges from successive emperors. Under Gallienus, whose sole reign began after Valerian's capture by Shapur I in 260, provincial bronze issues from the Conventus of Alabanda continued largely through civic initiative rather than imperial direction, the central government being consumed by the simultaneous crises of the Gallic Empire breakaway and repeated Alamannic incursions into Italy.