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Æ28 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠ ΡΟΥΦΟΥ ΑϹΙ ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩ
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped and diademed bust of Salonina (Chrysogone Augusta) facing right, with hair elaborately waved and arranged in ridged rows, bound by a diadem. The empress wears draped garments over the shoulder. The encircling legend in Greek identifies the subject. The portrait is rendered in the provincial style typical of the Lydian mint at Sardis during the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Sardis held the neokorate — the right to maintain an imperial cult temple — three times by the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus, a distinction the city had accumulated across generations of petitioning Rome. The legend's explicit reference to the third neokorate (Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ) was civic advertising as much as religious acknowledgment; these titles were hard-won through embassy and expenditure, and losing one was a genuine political catastrophe. The magistrate named in the inscription, Rufus, served as the issuing authority responsible for this local bronze.