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Æ29 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ϹΤΡΑ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡ, ΑΠΟΛΛΩ/ΝΙΑΤ)
| Issuer | Apollonia Salbace (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A tetrastyle temple with four columns and an arcuated (arched) lintel, within which three deities are depicted: Apollo standing at centre, flanked by Artemis and Aphrodite to his left and right respectively. The figures are rendered in a frontal or three-quarter stance typical of provincial bronze coinage. The reverse legend, distributed around and within the field, names the local strategos Menandros and identifies the issuing civic authority of the Apolloniates. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Apollonia Salbace was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage effectively ceased after Gallienus — the provincial bronze series ending alongside the broader collapse of city-issued currency across Asia Minor in the 260s, a region simultaneously pressured by Gothic raids, plague, and the economic disruptions of the Crisis of the Third Century. The strategos name ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟϹ preserved in the obverse legend is the sole surviving record of this magistrate's existence.