Æ24 - Maximinus ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ

Heraclea Pontica had a long history of punching above its political weight — a Greek colony founded by Megara in the 6th century BC, it retained enough civic pride under Roman rule to continue issuing bronze coinage well into the 3rd century. Maximinus Thrax, whose reign this piece falls under, never visited the eastern provinces; his campaigns kept him fixed on the Rhine and Danube frontiers until the Senate declared him a public enemy in 238.

That chaotic year — three rival emperors dead within months — makes any provincial issue attributable to his reign a compressed historical document.