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Æ30 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ)
| Issuer | Antioch ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Weight | 12.94 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ ΠΟ ΛΙ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus) |
| Reverse description | A tetrastyle temple depicted in elevation, set upon a two-stepped podium, with four columns supporting an arcuated lintel. Within the intercolumnar space stands the civic goddess Tyche facing left, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left, emblematic of the city's fortune and prosperity. The city ethnic legend is inscribed in the field or along the periphery. |
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Antioch ad Maeandrum — not to be confused with the far more prominent Syrian Antioch — was a small Carian city whose civic coinage largely dried up after the Severan period. That it issued bronze under Gallienus during his sole reign places it among a cluster of western Anatolian mints that briefly resumed local production during the catastrophic 260s, when Gallienus was simultaneously fighting usurpers on the Rhine, repelling Gothic incursions into the Balkans, and absorbing the loss of the eastern provinces to Palmyra.
The Alabanda conventus administered judicial and administrative affairs for this region under Roman provincial organization, and civic issues from its constituent cities during this decade are notably sparse in the record.