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Æ36 - Valerian and Gallienus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΑΥΡ ΙΕΡΩΝΟϹ ΛΕΥΚΟΠΕΤΡΕΙΤΗϹ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Tralles, Lydia |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in Lydia, struck provincial bronze under a local magistrate whose name — Aurelius Hieron — appears in the legend alongside the ethnic ΛΕΥΚΟΠΕΤΡΕΙΤΗϹ, a reference to Leukopetrai, a locality or territorial designation associated with the city's civic identity. The co-reign of Valerian and Gallienus (253–260) produced an unusually dense run of provincial issues across the Ephesian conventus, partly because the empire's silver coinage was deteriorating so badly that civic bronzes absorbed more of everyday transactional life than they had in previous generations.
Valerian's capture by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260 effectively ended the co-reign and halted most provincial issues honoring both emperors simultaneously.