Æ24 - Gordian III ΛΥϹΙΑΔΕΩΝ

Lysias was a minor Pisidian city whose civic coinage output under Gordian III was modest enough that individual die pairs can often be traced across surviving specimens. The reference VII.1#724.1 places this squarely within the Apamea conventus — the Roman administrative district used to organize assizes and, by extension, the permissions governing local bronze emissions. Cities within this conventus struck on their own initiative but required implicit sanction from the provincial governor, which kept output volumes low and survival rates correspondingly thin.