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Hexassarion - Gordian III ΟΛΥΜΠΗΝωΝ
| Issuer | Olympus |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ ΜΑΡ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus) |
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Olympus was one of the lesser Lycian cities granted the right to strike bronze under Roman imperial authority, and its civic coinage under Gordian III falls within a narrow window — his reign lasted just six years before he died on campaign against Shapur I, almost certainly murdered by his own praetorian prefect Philip the Arab. Provincial civic bronzes of this type were struck for local exchange and religious festival use, not imperial circulation, which is why survival in any condition is genuinely uneven. The Aulock Lykien corpus remains the standard reference for these issues precisely because so few were systematically catalogued before his work.