Æ22 - Maximinus ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Magnesia ad Maeandrum's civic bronze coinage under Maximinus Thrax reflects the awkward position of Greek provincial cities during his reign — a soldier-emperor who never visited the eastern provinces and whose legitimacy was contested almost from the start. The city had been minting under Roman oversight within the Milesian conventus for generations, but issues attributable specifically to the 235–238 window are relatively scarce, likely reflecting disrupted civic finances during a period of sustained military campaigning on the Rhine and Danube frontiers that drained imperial attention and resources eastward.