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Æ26 - Maximinus ΚΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Cius (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Maximinus Thrax facing right, presented three-quarter from the rear, with the paludamentum (military cloak) visible over the left shoulder and the articulated scales of the cuirass rendered in fine relief. The imperial effigy displays the characteristically broad features associated with Maximinus in provincial coinage. The Greek legend is disposed around the periphery of the flan, reading clockwise from the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Γ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗΡ ΜΑΞΙΜΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus Augustus) |
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Cius — the modern Gemlik on the Marmara coast — was a Milesian foundation whose civic coinage under the Severans and their successors followed the standard Bithynian provincial pattern. Maximinus Thrax, the issuing emperor here, never visited the eastern provinces; his entire reign was consumed by campaigns on the Rhine and Danube frontiers and, ultimately, the civil war that killed him outside Aquileia in 238. Provincial bronzes struck in his name are consequently thin on administrative context — local magistrates issued them essentially on civic initiative, with the imperial portrait functioning more as a loyalty marker than any product of central mint policy.