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Æ20 - Maximinus ΜΑΥϹΤΑΥΡΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Mastaura (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of the city nymph Mastaura facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of the Lydian conventus under Maximinus I. The portrait features a diadem and drapery over the shoulder, personifying the eponymous deity of the city. The obverse legend ΜΑϹΤΑΥΡΑ encircles the bust, identifying the civic personification. The flan is irregular and the surfaces heavily worn, though the bust type remains identifiable by established typology. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΜΑϹΤΑΥΡΑ (Translation: Mastaura) |
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Mastaura was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output was modest even by provincial standards, and issues attributable to the reign of Maximinus Thrax are among the rarest in the local sequence. Maximinus never visited the eastern provinces — he spent his entire reign campaigning on the Rhine and Danube frontiers before his murder outside Aquileia in 238 — yet cities like Mastaura struck bronze in his name regardless, fulfilling the expected ceremonial obligation to the reigning emperor.
The Conventus of Ephesus administered a sprawling judicial district; Mastaura's small bronzes circulated well below that administrative tier, functioning in purely local exchange.