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Æ26 - Gordian III ΚΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Cius (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ϹΑΒΕΙΝΙΑ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΕΙΝΑ (Translation: Sabinia Tranquillina) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cius, the Bithynian port city at the eastern end of the Propontis, had a complicated civic history by the time Gordian III's coins were struck there. Philip V of Macedon razed the city in 202 BC and handed its territory to Prusias I of Bithynia, who refounded it as Prusias ad Mare — yet the old name persisted in local usage for generations. That stubborn civic identity surfaces in the ΚΙΑΝΩΝ ethnic on coins like this one, a small assertion of origins the Macedonians tried to erase.