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Æ29 - Gordian III ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Antioch ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Weight | 9.32 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, depicted from a three-quarter rear perspective, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and articulated pteryges along the cuirass hem. The effigy displays the youthful facial features characteristic of Gordian III's portraiture on provincial coinage. A Greek imperial titulature legend runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Antioch ad Maeandrum was a small Carian city whose civic coinage output was modest even by regional standards, and issues under Gordian III represent some of the final bronze struck there before the city's mint activity effectively ceased. The reference VII.1#609.1 places this within the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum framework for the Conventus of Alabanda, a judicial district whose constituent cities minted with varying regularity under the Severans and their successors.
Gordian III's reign coincided with renewed pressure on Asia Minor's provincial economies from Persian campaigning in the east, which may partly explain the abbreviated civic minting of this period.