Æ27 - Gordian III ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Ε

Dionysopolis, a small Black Sea coastal city in Lower Moesia, struck provincial bronze throughout the Severan and Gordian periods largely on its own initiative — the imperial government had little interest in regulating small civic issues of this kind. The Ε in the reverse field is a civic officeholder's mark, likely a magistrate's serial or year-of-issue notation, a practice common to several Moesian and Thracian mints that helps sequence otherwise undated civic bronzes.

The reference VII.2#1643 places this within Jurukova's corpus of Dionysopolitan coinage — a thinly distributed series that survives mostly in Bulgarian museum collections following 19th-century excavations along the Danube littoral.