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Æ25 - Maximinus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ ϹΑΓΑΡΙϹ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Maximinus I (Thrax) facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the rear, displaying the paludamentum fastened at the shoulder and the segmented armour of the cuirass. The imperial effigy is boldly modelled in the provincial style characteristic of Bithynian civic coinage. A Greek legend surrounds the bust, reading clockwise along the periphery of the flan. The coin surface shows a deep olive-green patina consistent with long burial. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nicaea sat on the Sangarius River — the ϹΑΓΑΡΙϹ of this coin's reverse type — and the city had long leveraged that geography for civic pride in its provincial bronze coinage. Maximinus Thrax, whose reign this issue dates to, never visited the eastern provinces; he spent his entire time as emperor campaigning on the Rhine and Danube frontiers before his troops murdered him outside Aquileia in 238.
Provincial bronzes of Maximinus are relatively scarce compared to his Severan predecessors, likely reflecting the instability of his three-year reign and the administrative disruption that followed the revolt of the Gordians.