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Æ24 - Maximinus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | Γ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜΕΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus Augustus) |
| Reverse description | Sarapis standing facing, head turned to the left, clad in long robes. The deity holds a long sceptre in the left hand while the right arm is raised, possibly holding a taenia or patera. The reverse legend ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ is inscribed in the field or around the periphery, identifying the civic issuing authority of Nicaea. |
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Nicaea's civic bronzes under Maximinus Thrax carry an implicit tension: the city continued issuing coins in the name of an emperor who never visited the eastern provinces and whose reign ended with his own troops starving him out during the siege of Aquileia in 238. Provincial mints in Bithynia had no reliable intelligence about events in Italy, and some issues may have been struck after his death was already fact in Rome.