Æ30 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝΕΙΚ ΓΕΡΜ (Ν)

Germe was a small Mysian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of local magistrates willing to fund issues at their own expense — the magistrate name preserved in this legend, Aristoneikos, is the clearest evidence we have that he existed at all. The honorific ΓΕΡΜ(Ν), almost certainly referencing a Germanicus title tied to Gordian III's campaigns against the Persians and their allied frontier pressures, was a common piece of flattery from provincial mints seeking imperial favor.

The Conventus of Pergamum administered a cluster of such minor civic mints, most of which ceased production entirely after Gallienus centralized bronze coinage in the 260s.