Æ29 - Aemilian ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ, Ε ϹΠΔ

Amisus held the status of a free city — eleuthera — under Roman provincial administration, a privilege dating to Pompey's reorganization of Pontus in 65 BC and jealously maintained for centuries. The civic year date ΕϹΠΔ (year 285) in the Pontic era confirms the 253 AD attribution, placing this coin squarely in the reign of Aemilian, whose entire rule lasted roughly three months before his own troops killed him near Spoleto.

Coins struck in Aemilian's name by provincial mints are genuinely scarce — his reign was too brief for extensive civic issue cycles to complete.