Æ22 - Maximinus ΕΠ ΠΑΥϹΕΡΩΤΟϹ ΚΥΜΑΙΩΝ

Cyme was among the oldest Greek foundations on the Aeolian coast, and by the Severan period had long since faded into provincial obscurity — which makes its continued output of civic bronze under Maximinus Thrax all the more interesting. Maximinus never visited the eastern provinces during his reign; his coinage there was issued entirely through local magistrates operating on loyalty and inertia. The magistrate name ΠΑΥϹΕΡΩΤΟϹ recorded here is the kind of hyper-local administrative detail that survives nowhere else in the literary record.