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Æ28 - Valerian and Gallienus ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Valerian facing right, portrayed in three-quarter rear view, with paludamentum fastened at the shoulder and muscled cuirass visible below. The effigy is rendered in the provincial style typical of the Samian mint, with bold if somewhat crude relief. A Greek imperial legend encircles the bust within a dotted border, reading partially as ΑΥΡΤ Κ ΠΟ ΛΙΚΙ ΟΝΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟϹ, an abbreviated rendering of the emperor's full titulature Aurelius Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Samos issued bronze coinage under the joint reign of Valerian I and Gallienus during a period of acute imperial stress — the very years that saw Valerian captured by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260 AD, the only Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy. Provincial mints across Asia Minor continued striking civic bronzes through this crisis largely uninterrupted, a bureaucratic inertia that makes precise dating within the 253–260 window difficult without specific magistrate names on the die.