Æ25 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΚΟΡ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛΕωΝ

Philomelium, a Phrygian city on the road between Laodicea and Iconium, struck civic bronzes under its own magistrates well into the third century — one of dozens of Asian cities exercising local minting authority before Gallienus effectively ended provincial bronze coinage in the 260s. The magistrate name preserved in this coin's legend, Alexandros, is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record for this city, making the coin itself a primary historical source.