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Dupondius - Valerianus ΛAEΡTEITΩN, Laertes
| Issuer | Laertes |
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| Year | 253-255 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (253-255) - Laertes |
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Laertes was a small coastal city in Rough Cilicia — the rugged, pirate-haunted stretch of southern Anatolia that Rome never fully pacified — and its civic bronze issues under Valerian I belong to a burst of local coinage activity that accompanied the emperor's eastern campaigns against Shapur I. These provincial issues were essentially municipal self-promotion, struck with imperial permission to facilitate local exchange during a period when the central silver coinage was debased to near-worthlessness.
BMC RE#7 is among the better-documented specimens from this obscure mint.