Æ23 - Gordian III ΙΕΡΑϹ ΝΕΙΚΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ

Nicopolis ad Istrum — the city whose magistrates authorized this issue — was a Moesian foundation, not the Actium-founded Nicopolis in Achaea that the catalog's regional attribution suggests. The two cities are routinely conflated. During Gordian III's reign, the Moesian city maintained an active civic bronze coinage under a series of named magistrates, with individual issues distinguishable by the magistrate's name in the legend — a detail that, if legible, anchors this piece to a specific administrative moment in the province.