Nysa-Scythopolis sat astride the Maeander valley in Lydia, and its civic bronze issues under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus were overseen by a local magistrate — the grammateus Cl. Pollion named in the obverse legend. This appointed office controlled the authorization of civic coinage, and the inclusion of a grammateus name on provincial bronzes is one of the few mechanisms by which individual Roman-era municipal officials remain traceable today.
The Conventus of Ephesus administered a sprawling judicial district, and Nysa's continued coin production through the 250s AD is notable given how severely the Decian and Valerianic plague disrupted civic life across Asia Minor during exactly these years.
Nysa-Scythopolis sat astride the Maeander valley in Lydia, and its civic bronze issues under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus were overseen by a local magistrate — the grammateus Cl. Pollion named in the obverse legend. This appointed office controlled the authorization of civic coinage, and the inclusion of a grammateus name on provincial bronzes is one of the few mechanisms by which individual Roman-era municipal officials remain traceable today.
The Conventus of Ephesus administered a sprawling judicial district, and Nysa's continued coin production through the 250s AD is notable given how severely the Decian and Valerianic plague disrupted civic life across Asia Minor during exactly these years.