Æ29 - Gordian III ϹΥΝΝΑΔΕΩΝ ΑΡΧ ΑΛΕΖ Β ΑΓΩΝ ΑΡΧΙΕΡΙ Β

Synnada, a Phrygian city whose marble quarries supplied Rome with the prized marmor Phrygium, held the right to strike civic bronze under Gordian III as part of the broader system of Greek Imperial coinage administered through the Conventus of Synnada. The inscriptions referencing an archiereus and agonothetes reflect real civic offices — the presiding priest of the imperial cult and the games superintendent — whose names were considered honorific enough to appear on coin legends, a practice concentrated heavily in Asia Minor during the Severan and early post-Severan period.

The double tenure designations (Β, indicating a second term in office) narrow the coin's probable striking window considerably within Gordian's six-year reign.