Æ29 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΓΡΑΜ Μ ΑΥΡ ΚΑΝΔΙΔΟΥ ΝΕΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Neapolis ad Harpasum was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of a local magistrate willing to fund a bronze issue — the magistrate name preserved in this legend, Aurelius Candidus, is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record. The grammateus, or secretary, bore administrative responsibility for the issue, a civic office that in third-century Caria carried real financial exposure, not merely ceremonial title.

The Conventus of Alabanda grouped smaller Carian communities for Roman judicial administration, and civic bronzes from these satellite towns are considerably scarcer than those of Alabanda itself.