Æ23 - Gordian III ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ ΜΕΙΛΗΤ (Ϲ)

Miletopolis was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III leaned heavily on founder mythology — the ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ ("founder") epithet on this issue invokes the city's claimed Milesian origins, a rhetorical gesture common among small Anatolian mints anxious to assert Greek pedigree under Roman rule. The reference to Miletus as founding city was a point of civic pride pressed into bronze.

RPC VII.1 #89 is sparsely attested in major collections.