Æ37 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ

Germe was a minor city in Mysia whose civic coinage under Gordian III was tied directly to local magistracies — the legend naming Apollonides as archon anchors this piece to a specific administrative moment in the city's Roman-period governance. Civic bronze of this scale from Germe is genuinely scarce; the city produced far less coinage than its Pergamene conventus neighbors, and large module pieces like this one appear infrequently in the trade. The reference to VII.1#158 places it within Franke and Nollé's corpus of Mysian civic issues.