Æ19 - Maximinus ΜΥΛΑϹΕΩΝ

Mylasa was an ancient Carian city whose civic coinage under Maximinus Thrax reflects the brief, turbulent three years between his acclamation by the Rhine legions and his murder outside Aquileia. The city had long-standing ties to Roman administration through the Alabanda conventus, one of the judicial districts organizing Roman Asia Minor, and continued issuing bronze civic types throughout the crisis-ridden third century largely independent of imperial mint output.

Maximinus never visited the eastern provinces. His coinage there is entirely the product of local civic initiative.