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Æ22 - Gordian III ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing right in martial pose, her right arm raised and brandishing a spear overhead, while her raised left arm bears a large round shield. The goddess is rendered in the classical Ionian tradition typical of Magnesian civic coinage, clad in peplos and helmet. The ethnic legend ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Magnesia ad Maeandrum. |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum was a city with an outsized sense of its own history — it claimed to have introduced the cult of Artemis Leucophryene to the Greek world and lobbied repeatedly, across centuries, for formal recognition of the sanctuary's inviolability. Bronze civic issues under Gordian III represent the tail end of the city's autonomous coinage tradition; within a generation, the broader collapse of the provincial bronze system under Gallienus would end such local issues across most of Asia Minor for good.