Æ27 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚ ΕΠ Ϲ ϹΕΞϹΤΟΥ)

Smyrna held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — multiple times over, and the legend's reference to three such grants (Γ ΝΕΩΚ) reflects a status the city lobbied for aggressively throughout the 3rd century. The magistrate named Sextus in the inscription places this among a dateable group within Gallienus's sole reign, after Valerian's capture by Shapur I at Edessa in 260 left his son ruling alone.

Provincial bronze of this period from the Smyrna conventus was not struck much longer — the civic coinage tradition in Asia Minor effectively collapsed before the end of Gallienus's reign.