Nysa-Scythopolis in Lydia issued coins under joint imperial authority during the co-reign of Valerian and his son Gallienus, a pairing forced by the military chaos of the 250s — a decade that saw upwards of a dozen claimants to the purple and near-continuous pressure on the Danubian and eastern frontiers. The magistrate named in the legend, Claudius Pollio, was a local official whose civic pride and administrative tenure are preserved nowhere else except on coins exactly like this one.
Nysa-Scythopolis in Lydia issued coins under joint imperial authority during the co-reign of Valerian and his son Gallienus, a pairing forced by the military chaos of the 250s — a decade that saw upwards of a dozen claimants to the purple and near-continuous pressure on the Danubian and eastern frontiers. The magistrate named in the legend, Claudius Pollio, was a local official whose civic pride and administrative tenure are preserved nowhere else except on coins exactly like this one.