Æ25 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝΕΙΚ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ

Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III was administered under the magistrate whose name appears in the inscription — a local official whose appointment to oversee the mint was itself a civic honor. The Conventus of Pergamum grouped smaller cities like Germe under Pergamene judicial jurisdiction, and the right to strike bronze was granted selectively; not every city in the conventus exercised it simultaneously. Gordian's reign saw a notable surge in provincial bronze output across Asia Minor, partly filling gaps left by disrupted central supplies during the chaos of 238.