Æ19 - Gordian III ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Nicaea's civic bronze issues under Gordian III belong to the last sustained phase of autonomous coinage from Bithynian cities before the provincial mint system effectively collapsed under the pressures of the third-century crisis. The city's output during his reign was prolific, drawing on deep civic pride rooted in Nicaea's role as the dominant urban center of Bithynia — a status it contested bitterly with Nicomedia for centuries.

The reference to VII.2#1971 places this within Recueil Général, the standard corpus for Bithynian civic bronzes, where Nicaea's issues under Gordian occupy a dense run of varieties.