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Æ29 - Maximinus ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ (retrograde ΝΩΝ)
| Issuer | Bruzus (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, god of medicine, stands facing with head turned to the left, his right hand resting on a serpent-entwined staff (caduceus); to his right stands Hygieia, goddess of health, facing right, extending a patera from which she feeds the serpent coiling up from her arm. The two deities are depicted in a balanced, confronted composition typical of Phrygian civic coinage. The ethnic legend of the Bruzians appears in the field, with the final three letters ΝΩΝ rendered in retrograde. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ (retrograde ΝΩΝ) (Translation: of the Bruzians) |
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Bruzus was a minor Phrygian settlement whose civic coinage output was modest even by provincial standards, and issues under Maximinus Thrax are accordingly scarce. The retrograde NΩN in the ethnic ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ points to a die-cutter error — not a deliberate variant — and parallels in the series suggest the reverse die was used without correction, meaning every coin struck from it carries the same mistake.
Maximinus never visited the eastern provinces; his three-year reign was consumed almost entirely by military campaigns on the Rhine and Danube before his murder outside Aquileia in 238.