Æ22 - Maximinus C R I F S AN CCCV

Sinope's civic bronze issues under Maximinus Thrax are among the more precisely datable provincial coins in the eastern series. The city's era — the Colonian Era of Sinope, reckoned from 47 BC following Julius Caesar's refoundation of the colony — places CCCV at 258/259 of that reckoning, which aligns squarely with the earliest years of Maximinus's reign, 235–236 AD. Maximinus never visited the eastern provinces; his brief, violent rule was spent almost entirely campaigning on the Rhine and Danube frontiers, making his portrait on eastern civic bronzes a purely administrative acknowledgment rather than any reflection of local loyalty.