Æ34 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΕΠ ΑΡΧ ΑΦΡΟΔΙϹΙΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ)

Antioch on the Maeander was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under Gallienus coincided almost exactly with the most chaotic decade in third-century Roman history — the period scholars now call the Crisis of the Third Century, when the empire fractured into three competing states and Gallienus ruled an increasingly shrinking core. Provincial bronze of this type was struck under local magistrates, with the archon's name embedded in the legend; Aphrodisios held that office during what was effectively a continuous military emergency.

The Conventus of Alabanda grouped several small Carian cities for administrative and judicial purposes under Roman provincial organization, giving even modest towns like this one the institutional footing to issue civic bronze independently.