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Æ29 - Maximinus ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bruzus (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Confronted busts of Maximinus I, laureate, draped and cuirassed, facing right, and Maximus Caesar, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed, facing left; the jugate presentation emphasizes the dynastic pairing of emperor and heir. The obverse legend encircles both effigies, identifying the senior Augustus and the junior Caesar by their full imperial titulature. |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing facing, head turned to the left, holding a patera in her extended right hand over a small lighted altar at her side, and a long spear in her left hand; a large round shield rests upright behind her. The reverse legend in the exergual field and periphery identifies the issuing civic community of Bruzus in the Syrian Apamea conventus. |
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Bruzus was a minor Phrygian city whose coins are rare enough that individual die studies remain incomplete. This piece was struck under Maximinus Thrax, the Thracian soldier-emperor who never set foot in Rome during his entire reign and was recognized by the Senate only under duress. Provincial mints like Bruzus continued operating through their local civic magistrates largely independent of central direction, which accounts for the considerable variation in fabric and module seen across the conventus of Apamea bronzes from these three years. Maximinus was killed by his own troops outside Aquileia in 238.