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Æ31 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ)
| Issuer | Acmonea (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare, diademed head of Demos personified, facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of Phrygian civic coinage of the mid-third century AD. The portrait is set within a circular field bounded by a dotted border, with the Greek legend distributed around the periphery. The modeling of the facial features is broadly executed, consistent with the workshop output of the Acmonea mint under Gallienus. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΕΡΟϹ ΔΗΜΟϹ (Translation: Sacred People) |
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Acmonea was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Gallienus falls entirely within his sole reign following the capture of his father Valerian by Shapur I in 260 — an unprecedented humiliation that left the empire functionally fractured. Provincial bronze of this period from the Apamean conventus was struck on local authority, filling a practical gap as the central Roman mint strained under near-constant military crisis. The X# reference places this outside the standard RPC framework, suggesting attribution remains working rather than settled.