Æ21 - Gordian III ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Magnesia ad Maeandrum enjoyed a long tradition of civic bronze coinage under Roman imperial oversight, and issues of Gordian III are among the more frequently encountered from this mint — suggesting reasonably active local production during his six-year reign. The city sat on the Maeander River in the conventus of Miletus, one of the judicial districts through which Rome administered the province of Asia, and civic minting rights were tied to that administrative relationship rather than granted independently.

The reference VII.1#557.2 places this within the standard corpus for Asian civic bronzes; the .2 suffix indicates a die variant within the type.