Gordian III, AE17 of Metropolis, Ionia. 2.4 g. AD 238-244. 

GOR-DIANOC,laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
MHTROPO-LEITWN around and beneath river-god Astraios 
reclining left, holding reed and resting elbow on vase, from which water flows.

Milne 5 (NC 1937); RPC VII 458.7.

Contributed by David Lowe, July 2017.