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Æ22 - Maximinus ΤΥΧΗ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΥΧΗ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ (Translation: Fortune of the Magnesians) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces — his entire reign was consumed by campaigns on the Rhine and Danube frontiers, and he was dead before completing three years in power. Civic bronzes like this one from Magnesia ad Maeandrum were issued entirely on local initiative, with the city's magistrates choosing Tyche as intercessor between the imperial portrait and their own civic identity. Magnesia's prominence in the Maeander valley rested partly on its sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene, which had secured the city asylia status centuries earlier.