Æ31 - Gordian III ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ ΕΠΙ ϹΤ ΑΙΛ ΔΟΜ ϹΤΕΦ ΤΑΕΤΑ

Hypaepa was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III survives in enough variety to suggest an active local mint, yet individual dies are rarely reused across more than a handful of known specimens. The magistrate name preserved in this coin's legend — Aelius Domitius Stephanos Taetas — anchors it to a specific administrative moment, and cross-referencing that name against other Hypaepan bronzes has helped scholars sequence the city's issues across the emperor's reign.

The Conventus of Ephesus exercised loose supervisory authority over such civic issues, though production decisions and die cutting remained effectively local.