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Æ23 - Gordian III ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Mint of Ephesus (Ionia) |
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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 lettering | ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ (Translation: of the Ephesians) |
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Ephesus retained extraordinary mint autonomy under Gordian III, producing a dense series of civic bronzes that functioned alongside imperial coinage without direct sanction from Rome. The city's commercial weight — anchored by the Temple of Artemis and one of the Aegean's busiest harbors — gave it both the economic justification and the political leverage to keep striking on its own authority well into the third century.
The reference VII.1#386.2 places this piece within the Gorinian corpus compiled by Walser and Winkler, where the Ephesian civic series shows notable die-link clustering suggesting concentrated production runs rather than continuous output.