Æ18 - Maximinus ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ

Hadrianeia, a minor Mysian city founded by or in honor of Hadrian in the early second century, minted prolifically under the Severans but issued relatively little under Maximinus Thrax — whose reign, lasting barely three years, was marked by military campaigns on the Danube and the Rhine that drained provincial attention and resources. The city's coins under Maximinus are correspondingly scarce. Hadrianeia's bronze issues from this period fall within the conventus of Adramyteum, one of the administrative districts through which Rome organized civic coinage rights in Asia Minor.