Æ37 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΑΙΛ ΔΗΜΟΝΕΙΚΟΥ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Magnesia ad Maeandrum sits in the Maeander river valley of Ionia, and its civic bronze issues under Gordian III reflect the city's continued investment in the imperial cult during a reign defined by military crisis on the eastern frontier. The magistrate named in the legend — Aelius Demonikos — held the post of grammateus, the chief administrative title attached to coin production in many Asian cities, though his tenure and family remain unattested outside numismatic sources. Civic bronzes of this size from Magnesia are notably scarcer than those from neighboring Miletus or Ephesus.