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Æ26 - Gallienus (sole reign) (C G I)
| Issuer | Parium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A monumental three-bay triumphal arch is depicted in facing view, its architecture surmounted by a central figure standing in a facing quadriga, flanked on each side by a statuary figure atop the lateral bays. The composition is a prestigious civic type referencing a local monument at the Mysian colony of Parium, rendered in the flat, schematic style typical of third-century provincial bronzes. The colonial abbreviation legend appears in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Parium, the old Milesian colony on the southern Marmara shore, retained its colonial identity stubbornly into the Imperial period — its bronze issues under Gallienus carry the COL(onia) IVL(ia) AVG(usta) PAR(ium) formula, advertising a Roman pedigree stretching back to the Caesarian or Augustan refoundation. The city continued striking autonomous civic bronzes well into the sole reign, even as the broader Roman monetary system fractured catastrophically following the capture of Valerian at Carrhae in 260 AD.
Provincial bronze from Parium in this period is genuinely scarce in the market.