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Æ29 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΛΠΙ ϹΕΥΗΡΕΙΝΟΥ / ΝΕΩΚΟΡ
| Issuer | Aezani (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed youthful bust of Demos, the personification of the people of Aezani, facing right, with softly rendered facial features characteristic of provincial Greek civic coinage of the mid-third century AD. The portrait is depicted with short curling hair and a slightly idealized countenance. The circular legend ΔΗΜΟϹ ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ runs around the periphery of the flan, identifying the issuing civic authority. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show typical patination consistent with struck bronze provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Helios, the sun god, depicted standing frontally in a quadriga of four horses advancing to the right, rendered in a dynamic composition characteristic of civic provincial bronzes of Asia Minor. The deity raises a sceptre or torch in his right hand and extends his left hand forward holding a globe, symbolizing solar dominion over the cosmos. The field is divided by the reverse legend, which is distributed in two lines across the coin naming the local magistrate Iulius Ulpius Severinus and referencing the city's neocorate status. The die work is bold though somewhat worn, consistent with the hammered technique employed at provincial mints during the reign of Gallienus. |
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Aezani, a Phrygian city granted neokorate status — the honorific right to maintain an imperial cult temple — used coinage precisely like this to advertise that distinction. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend, Iulius Ulpius Severinus, anchors this piece to a specific local administration during the chaotic decade when Gallienus ruled alone after his father Valerian was captured by the Sasanian king Shapur I in 260 AD. Provincial bronze continued flowing from Phrygian mints even as the empire fractured into three competing polities.