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Æ32 - Gordian III ΑϹΠΕΝΔΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Aspendus, Pamphylia |
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| Year | 238-241 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the front, with paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and segmented cuirass detail below. The emperor's youthful features are characteristic of his early reign portraiture. A circular Greek legend surrounds the effigy in the outer field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Aspendus was one of the most prolific civic minting authorities in Pamphylia during the third century, and its bronze coinage under Gordian III reflects a city still exercising considerable local autonomy in the generation before Diocletian's reforms curtailed provincial minting. The city's coins were produced not for imperial circulation but for purely local economic function — trade within the region, temple dues, and market transactions in the Eurymedon valley.
The ethnic legend ΑϹΠΕΝΔΙΩΝ identifies civic rather than imperial authority, a distinction that mattered politically even as Rome tightened administrative control over Asia Minor.