Description: Ionia, Smyrna, Gallienus (253 - 268 AD). M. Aurelius Sextus, magistrate. Struck circa 260-268 AD. AVT K Π ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC; laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CMYPNAIΩN Γ NЄΩK ЄΠ M AVP CЄΞTOY; Cybele turreted, enthroned, holding in right hand patera, left arm resting on tympanum, lion at feet.

Diameter: AE28 mm

Weight: 7,08 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: SNG Cop 1413; Klose 24 var. (O-/R24 [unlisted obv. die]); BMC 463 (same rev. die)

Commentary: rough surfaces, faint but good details

History: In the Book of Revelation Smyrna was one of the Seven Churches of Asia, admired for its tribulation and poverty and forecast to suffer persecution.

Article Number: 017-03-04-41652