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Æ28 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠ ΓΡ ΤΙΒ ΚΛ ΑΡΤΕΜΑ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Weight | 8.06 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Valerian facing right, depicted from the rear in the characteristic three-quarter back view employed on certain provincial issues of this period. The imperial effigy displays the paludamentum fastened at the shoulder and the segmented cuirass typical of military portraiture under Valerian. A Greek legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the flan, naming the emperor in full titulature. The coin is struck on an irregular flan with some weakness at the edges, consistent with the hammered technique of mid-third-century Asian provincial coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in Lydia, held the rare distinction of issuing coinage under joint imperial authority during the co-reign of Valerian and his son Gallienus — a period defined by extraordinary military pressure on Rome's eastern frontier, including Valerian's catastrophic capture by the Sasanian king Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260 AD. The magistrate named in the legend, Tiberius Claudius Artemas, was a local official whose name appears on a small cluster of issues, tying this coin to a specific administrative moment in the city's civic minting history.