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Æ28 - Gordian III ΜΙΔΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Midaeum (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, portrayed from behind showing the rear of the cuirass with pteryges visible at the shoulder. The effigy displays the characteristic spiked radiate crown of the period. The Greek imperial legend surrounds the bust, reading from upper left around the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus) |
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Midaeum was a minor Phrygian city whose civic bronze issues under Gordian III represent some of the last sustained municipal coinage from the region before the broader collapse of city-issued bronze across Asia Minor in the mid-third century. The city's name derives from the Midas legend, and it sat in the upper Tembris valley — productive agricultural territory that funded a modest but consistent civic mint through the Severan period and into the reign of Gordian.
The reference VII.1#766 places this within the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum framework for Phrygian civic issues.