Æ29 - Maximinus ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ (retrograde ΝΩΝ)

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.