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Æ29 - Gordian III ϹΑΜΙΩΝ

Issuer Samos (Conventus of Miletus)
Year 238-244
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse description Nemesis advancing right
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Mintage ND (238-244) - -
Additional information

Samos operated under the Roman conventus system with Miletus serving as the judicial and administrative center for the region — a designation that carried real economic weight, since conventus cities controlled local mint activity across their assigned territories. Samian civic bronze of the Gordian III period falls within a well-documented but internally complex series; the ϹΑΜΙΩΝ ethnic appears across multiple die marriages recorded in the Gorny & Mosch and RPC VII.1 corpora, with enough variation in magistrate names and reverse types to reward die-study work.

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