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Æ24 - Maximinus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Issuer Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus)
Year 235-238
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Weight 7.72 g
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (235-238)
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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. Nicaea, a prosperous and administratively significant city in Bithynia, issued bronzes in his name as a matter of civic obligation rather than imperial enthusiasm. The senate's posthumous damnatio memoriae means imperial portraiture of Maximinus was actively suppressed in Rome, making provincial issues the primary surviving medium through which his likeness circulated at all.

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