Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΜΑΡ ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β ΙΟΥΛΙΕΩΝ ΓΟΡΔΗΝΩΝ

Iulia Gordus was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus frequently named local magistrates in the obverse legend — here a certain Julius Mar(---), holding the archonship for the second time. The reappointment of the same magistrate, recorded explicitly as "TO B" (the second term), is an unusual administrative detail that survives almost exclusively through the coin record, as no documentary papyri or inscriptions from Iulia Gordus corroborate local office tenure for this period.

The city fell within the conventus of Sardis, meaning judicial and administrative appeals ran through that metropolis rather than directly to the provincial governor at Ephesus.