Æ26 - Maximinus ΚΙΑΝΩΝ

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.