Æ39 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ϹΤΡΑ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΠΗΛΔ, Υ ΝΓ, ΑΠΟΛΛω-ΝΙΑΤωΝ)

Apollonia Salbace was a minor Carian city whose coinage under Gallienus coincides almost exactly with the catastrophic fragmentation of the Roman Empire — the Rhine frontier collapsing, the Palmyrene breakaway imminent, and Gallienus ruling an empire that had shed roughly a third of its territory by 260 AD. Provincial bronze continued to be struck in the eastern conventus regardless, the local civic machinery running on institutional inertia while the imperial center buckled. The strategos Menandros named in the inscription held a magistracy that doubled as civic financial oversight, a common arrangement in Asia Minor's Greek cities.