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Æ27 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ Π ΑΙ ΕΡΜΑΦΙΛΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ Β ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Cotiaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#5761 |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Gaius Julius Verus Maximus Caesar facing right, seen from the front, with the portrait rendered in typical provincial style of the Severan-Gordian transitional period. The circular Greek legend runs around the periphery of the flan. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show heavy patination consistent with extended burial. |
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| Obverse lettering | Γ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗ ΜΑΖΙΜΟϹ Κ (Translation: Gaius Julius Verus Maximus Caesar) |
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Maximinus I never set foot in Phrygia, and the civic authorities at Cotiaeum knew it. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Hermaphilos, serving in a first and second archonship — reflects the local elite's careful management of imperial loyalty at a distance, issuing bronze in the emperor's name to signal compliance while the man himself remained perpetually on campaign along the Rhine and Danube frontiers. Maximinus was dead within three years, killed by his own troops outside Aquileia in 238.