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Æ21 - Gordian III Μ ΑΥ ΕΡΜωΝΑΖ Κ ΜΗΤΡΟΦΑΝΗϹ ϹΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΙ ΥΔΙϹϹΕωΝ
| Issuer | Hydisus |
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| Year | 238-244 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Five lines of Greek inscription filling the field, enclosed within a laurel wreath tied at the base, naming the two local stephanephoroi (magistrates) M. Au. Hermonas and Metrophanes, together with the ethnic ΥΔΙϹϹΕωΝ identifying the issuing city of Hydisus. The wreath is rendered in careful provincial style with individual leaves distinguishable along both sides. |
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| Mint | Hydisus (Caria) |
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Hydisus was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III represents one of the more obscure municipal issues of the mid-third century. The magistrates named in the legend — Ermonas and Metrophanes — held the office of stephanephoros, the crown-bearing civic magistracy that in many Asian cities doubled as the eponymous dating office. That two names appear jointly is unusual and suggests either a shared tenure or a transitional administrative arrangement we can no longer fully reconstruct.
RPC VII.1 #649 is known from a very small number of specimens.