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Æ32 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ Ϲ ΚΛ ΦΗΛΕΙΚΟϹ ΑΔΡΑΜΥΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Adramyteum (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of the emperor Gordian III facing right, presented three-quarter from the rear in the characteristic provincial style. The youthful imperial effigy is rendered with a laureate wreath crowning the head, a paludamentum draped over the left shoulder, and a cuirass visible at the truncation. The Greek imperial titulature legend runs around the upper periphery of the coin within a dotted border. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Adramyteum, a coastal city in Mysia, held enough civic standing under the Severans and their successors to strike substantial bronze issues in its own name — a privilege tied to local elite competition for the office of magistrate, whose name the coin commemorates. The magistrate here, Claudius Phelix, is otherwise unattested outside the coin record. His tenure fell within Gordian III's reign, a period when provincial bronze production across Asia Minor was still vigorous but would collapse almost entirely within a generation as the third-century crisis deepened.