Æ25 - Maximinus COL AVG TRO

Maximinus Thrax never visited Alexandria Troas, but the city had good reason to honor him quickly. His elevation in 235 marked the first time a soldier of non-senatorial origin had seized the purple, and provincial mints across the Greek East moved fast to demonstrate loyalty. Alexandria Troas held the status of a Roman colony — hence the COL AVG TRO formula — a distinction granted by Augustus, which gave the city both the right and the expectation to produce Latin-legend bronzes in the emperor's name.

The reign lasted only three years before Maximinus was killed by his own troops outside Aquileia in 238.