Æ30 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΙΠΑΤΡΟΥ ΕΡΜΟϹ ΚΑΔΟΗΝΩΝ)

Cadi was a small Phrygian city whose civic bronze issues under Gallienus's sole reign — following Valerian's capture by Shapur I in 260 — reflect the administrative continuity that kept provincial mints functioning even as the empire fractured. The magistrate name in the obverse legend, Aurelius Antipatros, follows the pattern of local Phrygian elites who had acquired Roman citizenship under the Antonine Constitution of 212 and retained civic office through the catastrophic third century. The river god Hermos named in the legend marks Cadi's claim to the Hermos valley watershed, a localized identity assertion common to Lydian-Phrygian border communities.