Gordian III, AE36 of Nysa, Lydia. Grammateus Diodotus.

AVT K M ANT GORDIANOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
EPI GR AUR DIODOTOU NUSAEWN, Ceres in cart pulled left by two 
serpents, holding torch in each hand.

Mionnet Supp. VI, 437, otherwise unpublished.

Note: In BMC Lydia, p. LXXXI, note, Barclay Head does not list 
this grammateus for Gordian and doubts Mionnet's reading of the 
name, writing "Mionnet ... cites a coin of Gordian with EPI GR AVR 
DIODOTOY NYCAEWN, but I doubt whether it is correctly read". The 
clear legend of this coin proves that Mionnet's reading was 
absolutely correct and that this Grammateus did indeed strike coins for Gordian III.

With kind permission of www.edgarlowen.com, Nov. 2011.