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Æ28 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΚΛ ΠΩΛΛΙΩΝΟϹ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nysa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Weight | 8.05 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gallienus facing right, depicted from the rear in the characteristic provincial style, with paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and segmented cuirass rendered in relief. The effigy is set within a beaded border, with the Greek imperial titulature legend disposed around the periphery of the field. The portrait exhibits the typical stylized engraving of Asia Minor civic coinage from the mid-third century AD, with bold, slightly coarse die-cutting consistent with the Nysaean mint workshop. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ ΠΟ ΛΙΚΙΝΝ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus) |
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Nysa-Scythopolis sat astride the Maeander valley in Lydia, and its civic bronze issues under the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus reflect a period when the Roman East was hemorrhaging authority to Shapur I's Sasanian campaigns — Valerian himself would be captured at Edessa in 260, the only Roman emperor ever taken prisoner in battle. Local magistrate coinages like this one, issued under the grammateus Cl. Pollion named in the obverse legend, effectively filled a fiduciary vacuum as central imperial mint output became erratic and regionally unreliable.