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Æ21 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ ΕΡΜΑΦΙΛΟΥ ΑΡΧ Β, ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Cotiaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus enthroned to the left upon a high-backed throne, his upper body nude, holding a patera in his extended right hand and a long sceptre upright in his left. The god is depicted in the classical Pheidian tradition adapted for provincial coinage, with majestic, relaxed posture. The circumferential Greek legend naming the local magistrate and civic ethnic frames the central type, running around the full border of the flan. |
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Cotiaeum, modern Kütahya in Phrygia, struck coins under local magistrates whose names appear in the archon formula — here, Hermaphilos holding office for the second time, as the Β indicates. Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces during his short and violent reign; these civic bronzes were effectively self-issued by the city's administration, using the emperor's name as legitimizing cover while Rome itself was convulsed by the first serious military usurpations of the third century.
The archon's second term pins this issue to a datable administrative cycle within the 235–238 window.