Æ25 - Maximinus COL AVG TROAD

Maximinus Thrax never visited Alexandria Troas, but the city had good reason to court imperial favor — it held the coveted status of a Roman colonia, exempting its citizens from tribute and granting them rights equivalent to Italians. Local bronze issues like this one were struck not by central authority but by civic initiative, filling the gap left by Rome's near-total cessation of small-denomination bronze coinage under the Severans.

Maximinus's reign lasted only three years before he was killed by his own troops outside Aquileia in 238, the so-called Year of the Six Emperors.