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Æ37 - Valerian and Gallienus ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Mint of Bagis (Lydia) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ ΠΟ Λ(Ι) ΒΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus) |
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| Mintage | ND (253-260) |
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Bagis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output was modest at best, and issues naming both Valerian and Gallienus as co-emperors compress into a narrow seven-year window before Valerian's capture by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260 AD — the first and only time a reigning Roman emperor was taken prisoner by a foreign enemy. That catastrophe effectively ended the Valerian-Gallienus joint authority and terminated the provincial series that depended on it.
The city's Greek ethnicon ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ is the primary means of attribution; Bagis produced no coins under sole Gallienic authority after 260.