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Æ27 - Gordian III ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Calchedon (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Weight | 11.07 g |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chalcedon's civic bronze coinage under Gordian III belongs to a city with an awkward geographic destiny — founded before Byzantium, directly across the Bosphorus, yet consistently overshadowed by its neighbor. Ancient writers noted the irony; the Delphic oracle reportedly called Chalcedon's founders "blind" for ignoring the superior site opposite. By the third century AD the city had long made peace with that slight, functioning as a prosperous Bithynian center whose local magistrates continued authorizing bronze issues for regional circulation well into the crisis decades.
The reference VII.2#1852 places this within the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum corpus for the region.