Æ32 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΡΧ ΙΑϹΟΝΟϹ ΤΑΒΗΝΩΝ)

Tabae was a mid-tier Carian city whose civic bronze issues under Gallienus reflect a broader pattern of provincial mints asserting local identity during the military crisis of the third century, when central imperial authority was fracturing badly enough that cities like Tabae were left largely to manage their own coinage. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Iason — is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record for Tabae, making this piece a minor but real contribution to the prosopography of the city's civic administration.