Cibyra was a Pisidian city that had punched above its weight politically since Rome reorganized the region — it gave its name to one of the four Lycian-Pamphylian assizes, the conventus Cibyraticus, an administrative grouping that itself encompassed dozens of subordinate communities. Local bronze coinage persisted through the sole reign of Gallienus precisely because the central Roman mint was consumed by the military crisis of the 260s, leaving civic authorities in Asia Minor unusually active in filling the gap.
Cibyra was a Pisidian city that had punched above its weight politically since Rome reorganized the region — it gave its name to one of the four Lycian-Pamphylian assizes, the conventus Cibyraticus, an administrative grouping that itself encompassed dozens of subordinate communities. Local bronze coinage persisted through the sole reign of Gallienus precisely because the central Roman mint was consumed by the military crisis of the 260s, leaving civic authorities in Asia Minor unusually active in filling the gap.