Æ34 - Gordian III ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Nicaea's civic bronze coinage under Gordian III belongs to the final flourishing of Greek imperial issues in Bithynia — the mint ceased production not long after his reign, as Gallienus ultimately curtailed provincial bronze striking across much of Asia Minor. The city had long leveraged its coinage as a vehicle for civic prestige, and the larger module issues from this period reflect genuine competition with neighboring Nicomedia for prominence within the province.

The VII.2#1890 reference places this within Waddington, Babelon, and Reinach's systematic corpus — a catalogue now well over a century old and increasingly supplemented by die studies that reveal just how small some of these Nicaean emission runs actually were.