Æ23 - Maximinus ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ

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.