Æ45 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ Γ ΑΥΡ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ

Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III punched well above its administrative weight — the magistrate name preserved in this issue's legend, Aurelius Apollonides, appears across a tightly clustered group of large bronzes that represent virtually the entire surviving civic output of this reign from that mint. The title ΑΡΧΩΝ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ places him as chief magistrate, a position that carried direct responsibility for authorizing bronze production.

At 45mm, this is among the largest civic bronzes produced anywhere in the Pergamene conventus during the third century, a format reserved for prestige issues rather than everyday exchange.