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

AVT K M ANT GORDIANOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
EPI GR AUR DIODOTOU NUSAEWN, Demeter in biga of 
serpents left, holding torch in each hand.

Regling Nysa 163; Mionnet Supp VI, 437; SNG Munich 387; McClean 8688.

Note: The author of BMC Lydia, on the note of p. LXXXI, 
doubted 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". 
However, other examples of this coin are in several
collections.

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