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AR17 - Gordian III ΜΗΤΡ (Π) ΚΑΙϹ Β Ν, ΕΤ Δ
| Issuer | Caesarea (Cappadocia) |
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| Year | 241 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (241) |
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Gordian III's fourth regnal year issues from Caesarea in Cappadocia reflect the city's unusual practice of dating coins by the emperor's reign rather than a civic or provincial era — a relatively rare convention that makes precise chronological attribution straightforward. Caesarea held the only significant mint in Cappadocia and supplied silver coinage to a region where Roman legions on the eastern frontier, particularly those massing against Shapur I's Sasanian forces, required small-denomination silver in circulation.