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Æ27 - Gordian III ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ
| Issuer | Heraclea Pontica (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ (Translation: of the Heracleans in Pontus) |
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Heraclea Pontica retained the right to strike provincial bronze well into the third century, a privilege that became increasingly political as Rome's central authority fractured under the soldier-emperors. Gordian III came to power at thirteen, elevated by the Senate after the murder of Pupienus and Balbinus, and the city's coinage during his reign reflects the calculated loyalty of a Greek community hedging its position against an unstable imperial center.
The ethnic legend ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ — "of the Herakleiotes of Pontus" — distinguishes this issue from the city's earlier Bithynian-period coinage, a geographic distinction that mattered locally even when Rome paid it little attention.