Æ31 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΚΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΙΑΝΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ΜΙΔΑΕΩΝ

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.