Æ31 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΔΗΜΕΟΥ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Magnesia ad Maeandrum, a prosperous city on the Maeander river in Lydia, retained the right to strike civic bronze under Gordian III as part of the broader Roman provincial system operating through the Milesian conventus. The magistrate name recorded in the obverse legend — Demeas — anchors this piece to a specific administrative moment in the city's local governance, though Demeas himself leaves no trace in surviving literary sources. Provincial issues of this type ceased almost entirely within a generation, as the third-century crisis progressively dismantled the infrastructure that made civic coinage viable.