Æ27 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΖΗΝωΝΟϹ / ΑΙΖΑ-ΝΕΙ/ΤΩΝ)

Aezani, a Phrygian city best known today for its exceptionally preserved Temple of Zeus, issued civic bronze coinage under local magistrates well into the third century — a practice that effectively ended empire-wide when Gallienus halted most provincial bronze production around 268 AD. The magistrate name recorded in this coin's legend, Aurelius Zenon, reflects the spread of the Antonine gentilicium through the Greek East following the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD, which granted Roman citizenship — and with it the nomen Aurelius — to virtually all free inhabitants of the empire.

Aezani's coinage under Gallienus's sole reign falls into a politically turbulent window: the empire had just shed Valerian to Persian captivity at Edessa in 260.