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Æ31 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΚΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΙΑΝΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ΜΙΔΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Midaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Diameter | 31 mm |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, enthroned and seated left upon a high-backed throne, holding a patera in her extended right hand and resting her left arm upon a tympanum. A lion is positioned on each side of the throne, serving as her divine attributes and guardians. The reverse legend, distributed around the field, names the civic magistrate and the issuing city, reflecting the local administrative authority under whose auspices the coin was struck. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΚΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΙΑΝΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ΜΙΔΑΕΩΝ (Translation: under Claudius Philippianos, first archon, of the Midaeans) |
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Midaeum was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III was administered through the Conventus of Synnada — one of the Roman juridical districts organizing the sprawling province of Asia. The magistrate named in the legend, Klaudios Philippianos, appears as first archon, placing him among the handful of local officials whose names survived antiquity only because a bronze die cutter thought to record them. Provincial civic bronzes of this type ceased almost entirely after Gallienus consolidated imperial coinage in the 260s, making the Gordian III issues the last generation of this tradition for most Phrygian mints.