Æ41 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΦΑΥϹΤΟ ΒΑΚΧΙΟΥ, ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ)

Stratonicea Hadrianopolis occupied an awkward political position during Gallienus's sole reign — the emperor spent much of 260–268 fighting simultaneously on the Rhine frontier, suppressing the breakaway Gallic Empire, and contending with Odaenathus of Palmyra in the east. Provincial bronze issues from the Pergamene conventus filled the practical void left by an imperial mint stretched thin across multiple crisis fronts. The magistrate named in this legend, Aurelius Faustus, son of Bacchius, is attested only through a handful of surviving specimens, making his tenure datable almost exclusively by the coins themselves.