Æ26 - Gallienus sole reign) (ΑΦΡΟΔΙϹΙΕΩΝ

Aphrodisias enjoyed an unusually privileged position under Rome — the city held a formal treaty relationship dating to the late Republic and was explicitly granted tax immunity and autonomy by Augustus, a status it defended in the Roman courts as late as the third century. Local bronze issues of this kind were struck under civic authority rather than imperial directive, and production at Aphrodisias effectively ceased after Gallienus, when the broader collapse of the Greek provincial bronze coinage system under monetary pressure ended nearly three centuries of continuous civic minting across Asia Minor.