Æ30 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΟΝΗϹΙΜΟΥ ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ

Colophon's civic coinage under Gordian III was issued through the authority of a local magistrate — the strategosOnēsimos named in the legend — whose office carried responsibility for overseeing the mint and whose name appearing on the coin was as much a mark of civic prestige as administrative record. By the Severan and post-Severan periods, such magistrate-signed bronzes from the Ionian cities had become intensely competitive affairs, with local councils vying to produce impressive issues that reflected well on the officeholder. Colophon, though long past its classical glory, maintained active bronze production into the mid-third century.

The VII.1#351A reference places this among the rarer documented varieties for the city's Gordian-era output.