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Æ23 - Maximinus ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bruzus (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus enthroned to the left, his draped figure rendered in the conventional provincial style of the Conventus of Apamea. The deity extends his right hand holding a patera over an altar, while his left hand grasps a long upright sceptre. The reverse legend ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ is disposed around the central type, identifying the civic issuing authority of Bruzus, though partially obscured by encrustation on this example. |
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Bruzus was a minor Phrygian settlement whose civic coinage under Maximinus Thrax reflects an important administrative reality: the city fell under the conventus of Apamea, one of the judicial districts through which Rome managed the interior of Asia Minor. Maximinus never visited the eastern provinces — his entire reign was consumed by campaigns on the Rhine and Danube frontiers, and his eventual murder outside Aquileia in 238. Provincial bronzes like this one were struck entirely on local initiative, the city leveraging the emperor's image for civic legitimacy while Rome itself had no hand in the issue.