Æ39 - Gordian III ΠΑ ΒΑΚΧΙΟΥ ΠΑΝ?Η ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ

Apamea, situated at the confluence of the Maeander and Marsyas rivers, was one of the most productive civic minting authorities in Phrygia during the third century, and issues of this size — the largest bronze fabric in the local hierarchy — were reserved for festivals and civic distributions rather than ordinary exchange. The magistrate name partially preserved in the legend, conventionally read as Bakchios, is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record for this reign, making this piece significant for prosopographical study of Phrygian civic administration under Gordian III.