Æ25 - Maximinus ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Prusa ad Olympum was a prosperous inland city in Bithynia, founded according to tradition by Prusias I and sitting at the foot of Mount Olympus — the Mysian one, not the Thessalian. Its civic bronze coinage under Maximinus Thrax belongs to a politically awkward moment: the city was minting in the name of an emperor who never visited the eastern provinces and whose reign ended when his own troops starved him out during the siege of Aquileia in 238.