Æ29 - Maximinus ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ

Bruzus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on imperial favor for legitimacy — placing the portrait of a reigning emperor on the obverse was not merely convention but a practical assertion of belonging to the Roman order. Maximinus Thrax, who ruled 235–238, never visited the eastern provinces and was recognized there largely through coinage alone. His reign ended when the Senate declared him a public enemy following the revolt of the Gordians in Africa.

The Conventus of Apamea encompassed dozens of such small Phrygian mints, most of which ceased civic bronze production entirely within a generation of this issue.