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Æ26 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙωΝ, ΑϹ Δ)
| Issuer | Sparta (Achaea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Reference(s) | X#59724 |
| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gallienus facing left, depicted from the front, rendered in the provincial Greek style. The emperor's armoured breastplate is rendered in detail, conveying imperial authority. The encircling Greek legend names Gallienus in the accusative case, consistent with honorific civic coinage of the Peloponnesian region. The portrait displays the characteristic style of mid-third-century Lacedaemonian bronzes. |
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| Mintage | ND (260-268) |
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Sparta's civic bronze coinage under Gallienus belongs to the final gasp of Greek provincial issues — the city's minting activity ceased entirely around the time of the Herulian sack of 267 AD, which devastated much of southern Greece. Whether this particular piece predates that destruction or squeezed out just before the city's collapse into disorder is impossible to determine with certainty, but the window is narrow.
The ΑϹ Δ in the reference suggests a fourth year of a local magistracy or civic reckoning — an administrative detail that has resisted firm scholarly consensus on its precise correlation to absolute dates.