Æ27 - Valerian and Gallienus ϹΤΡ ΛΟΓΓΕΙΝΟΥ Β ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ ϹΙ/ΠΥ

Magnesia ad Sipylum sat at the foot of Mount Sipylus in the Hermus valley, a city that punched above its weight in civic pride during the third century. The inscription naming the strategos Longinus as magistrate places this coin within the local elite's well-documented habit of financing civic bronze coinage as a form of political currency — literally. Provincial bronze from the Smyrna conventus dried up almost entirely after Gallienus halted most civic bronze production across Asia Minor around 268, making issues from the final years of the joint reign genuinely terminal to their series.