Æ26 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ Π ΑΙ ΕΡΜΑΦΙΛΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ Β ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ

Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces — his three-year reign was consumed entirely by campaigns on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. The civic bronze issues of Phrygia, Cotiaeum among them, were struck on local initiative, the magistrate's name prominent in the legend precisely because imperial acknowledgment was distant and the local archon's authority filled the administrative vacuum. The magistrate named here, Hermaphilos, held a second-term archonship, which the Β in the legend confirms.