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Æ19 - Maximinus ΠΕΡΓΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Perge (Lycia et Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Weight | 4.54 g |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Artemis-Selene facing, head turned to the right, wearing a crescent on her head and a quiver on her shoulder, holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. The deity is presented in a formal hieratic pose typical of Pamphylian civic coinage. The ethnic legend ΠΕΡΓΑΙΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Perge. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΕΡΓΑΙΩΝ (Translation: of the Pergaeans) |
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Perge was among the most prolific civic minting authorities in Pamphylia during the third century, but the Maximinus Thrax issues are notably compressed into just three years — his entire reign. Thrax never visited the eastern provinces; civic mints like Perge operated on their own administrative momentum, striking his portrait largely as a formality of imperial acknowledgment rather than any directed policy from Rome.
He was murdered by his own troops outside Aquileia in 238, one of three emperors to die that year.