Æ29 - Gordian III ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ

Heraclea Pontica retained the right to strike bronze provincial coinage under Gordian III, a privilege the city had leveraged continuously since the Hellenistic period. The city's position on the Black Sea made it strategically valuable to Rome throughout the third century — a fact that likely helped maintain its minting status even as the broader provincial coinage system began contracting under pressure from military expenditure and debasement of the silver antoninianus.

The SNG von Aulock 424 reference places this among a well-documented group, though die matches across the Stancomb and von Aulock corpora suggest limited die production for this type.