Æ30 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΚΛ ΙΠΠΟΔΑΜΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΑϹΤΑΥΡΕΙΤΩΝ

Mastaura was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the tenure of local magistrates — the ΕΠΙ formula names the grammateus Klaudios Hippodamianos as the presiding official, making him personally responsible for this issue's authorization and production. Provincial bronze of this weight class from the Ephesian conventus was struck for purely local circulation; Roman silver handled interregional trade, leaving these bronzes to function within a tight geographic radius around the Maeander valley. The magistrate's name appears on no other currently catalogued Mastaura type, suggesting a single, short term of office.