Æ24 - Gordian III ΜΕΙΛΗΤΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Miletopolis was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III belongs to a well-documented burst of provincial bronze production that accelerated after the collapse of the Severan dynasty in 235 AD. Cities across the Cyzicus conventus seized on the political instability of the 230s and 240s to assert local identity through coin issues, often competing for the honorific titles that Rome periodically granted. Miletopolis never held neokorate status, which kept its issues modest in ambition and volume.

The reference VII.1#87.1 places this within Leschhorn's corpus of Mysian civic bronzes — a classification series that identified numerous previously uncatalogued dies from this city.