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Æ34 - Valerian and Gallienus ϹΑΜΙΩ/Ν
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΑΜΙΩ/Ν (Translation: of the Samians) |
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Samos, though by the mid-third century long stripped of political independence, retained its civic coinage rights under the Ionian conventus administered from Miletus — a privilege the city exercised aggressively during the joint reign of Valerian I and his son Gallienus. The co-regency coinage from eastern provincial mints is notoriously difficult to sequence, as output responded more to local priestly calendars and civic benefactions than to imperial chronology.
The X# reference places this outside the standard RPC or SNG frameworks, suggesting attribution has been resolved relatively recently through die studies rather than longstanding catalog tradition.