Æ29 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ Λ ΟΥΛ ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Magnesia ad Maeandrum issued coins under the authority of a named local magistrate — here Lucius Ulpius Paulus, whose title as grammateus (civic secretary) appears abbreviated in the obverse legend. This was a common but meaningful practice in the Conventus of Miletus: civic pride expressed through bureaucratic accountability, the magistrate's name permanently fixed in bronze. Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces; his three-year reign was consumed entirely by military campaigns along the Rhine and Danube before his murder outside Aquileia in 238.