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Æ27 - Valerian and Gallienus ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The archaic xoanon cult statue of Samian Hera depicted facing, rendered in the distinctive board-like form characteristic of the goddess's celebrated sanctuary at Heraion on Samos. The idol stands upright in the central field, its rigid, columnar form adorned with schematic drapery folds and a polos or crown atop the head. To the left, a crescent is visible, and to the right, a star, both celestial symbols flanking the deity. The legend ϹΑΜΙΩΝ is disposed around the periphery, identifying this as a civic issue of the Samians. |
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Samos sat under the jurisdiction of the Milesian conventus — one of the administrative districts through which Rome organized judicial and civic life in Asia Minor. Local bronze issues like this one were struck by the city's own authority to fill a gap the imperial mint never bothered to address: small-denomination everyday exchange. The joint reign attribution to Valerian and Gallienus narrows the window to the years before Valerian's catastrophic capture by Shapur I at Edessa in 260 AD, an event that effectively ended co-rule and sent the western empire into a decade of fragmentation.