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Tetrassarion - Gallienus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ ΒΑΡΓΑϹΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bargasa |
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| Year | 253-268 |
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| Value | Tetrassarion (0.4) |
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| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gallienus facing right, seen from the rear, rendered in the provincial style typical of Pisidian civic coinage. The radiate crown with prominent spikes frames the imperial effigy. The surrounding field is enclosed within a beaded border. The Greek imperial titulature legend runs around the periphery of the obverse. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Bargasa was a minor Pisidian city whose civic coinage essentially ceases after Gallienus — this issue falls near the end of a municipal minting tradition that had already grown sporadic. The magistrate name Diodotos preserved in the obverse legend is one of the few pieces of administrative evidence surviving from the city at all. Pisidia's inland civic mints were increasingly squeezed out during the military crises of the 250s and 260s, as bronze coinage became harder to justify locally when the empire itself was fracturing along its frontiers.