Æ22 - Gordian III ΚΙΒΥΡΑΤΩΝ

Cibyra was one of the few cities in the Conventus of Cibyra — the judicial district that bore its name — to mint consistently under Gordian III, reflecting its administrative prominence in the Lycian-Phrygian borderland. The city had a long history of punching above its weight: it was famously described by Strabo as commanding a military force of 30,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry at its peak, an extraordinary claim for a provincial town.

The reference VII.1#665 places this within the standard corpus for Cibyran bronzes, a series that remains incompletely die-studied.