Æ35 - Gordian III ΟΔΗϹϹΕΙΤΩΝ

Odessos, the Black Sea port city on Moesia Inferior's eastern coast, struck an unusually large volume of provincial bronze under Gordian III — the young emperor who came to power at fifteen after the brief joint reign of his father and grandfather both collapsed within weeks in 238. That chaotic year saw six emperors; the civic mints of the Danubian and Pontic regions kept issuing regardless, their local magistrates answerable more to commercial continuity than to imperial politics.

The ΟΔΗϹϹΕΙΤΩΝ legend reflects the city's own Hellenized civic identity, standard for Moesian provincial issues but worth noting as a record of municipal autonomy in coinage that Rome tolerated in the Greek East.