Æ18 - Gordian III ΔΟΡΥΛΑΕΩΝ

Dorylaeum, a Phrygian city in the Synnada conventus, struck bronze coinage under Gordian III as part of the broader phenomenon of Roman provincial civic issues — coins produced by local authority under imperial sanction rather than from the imperial mints. The city appears infrequently enough in the provincial series that individual types can be difficult to attribute without access to specialized corpora, and the reference here traces to the systematic cataloging efforts that only seriously addressed Phrygian civic bronzes in the late twentieth century.