Æ27 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΚΟΝΔΙΑΝΟΥ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus reflects a broader surge in provincial bronze production during the 250s — a decade when Gothic incursions, plague, and near-constant usurpation made central imperial authority increasingly difficult to project. The magistrate name ΚΟΝΔΙΑΝΟΣ preserved in the legend is one of the few administrative traces this city left in the historical record. Provincial issues from the Ephesian conventus were struck on local authority, their production and distribution entirely a civic matter.