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Æ29 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ Π ΑΙΛ ΕΡΜΑΦΙΛΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ϹΤΕΦ ΤΟ Β ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Cotiaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, the god of medicine, stands facing at left with head turned left, his right hand resting on a tall serpent-entwined staff (the Rod of Asclepius). Facing him at right stands Hygieia, goddess of health, turning slightly right and extending a patera from which she feeds the serpent coiled around the staff. Between the two deities stands the small cloaked figure of Telesphorus, the divine spirit of convalescence, depicted frontally and wearing his characteristic hooded mantle. The composition reflects a standard Cotiaean reverse type celebrating the divine healing triad. The encircling Greek magistrate legend fills the field around the three figures. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ Π ΑΙΛ ΕΡΜΑΦΙΛΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ϹΤΕΦ ΤΟ Β ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ (Translation: under Publius Aelius Hermaphilos, first archon and stephanephoros for the second time, of the Cotiaeans) |
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Cotiaeum, a Phrygian city on the road between Dorylaeum and Synnada, minted this bronze under the magistracy of P. Ael. Hermaphilos — the title indicating his second term as stephanephoros, the civic crown-bearer, a position that carried both religious and administrative weight in Asia Minor's municipal hierarchy. The office often fell to wealthy local elites who funded the minting costs directly.
Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces during his three-year reign, spending it entirely on the Rhine and Danube frontiers before his murder outside Aquileia in 238.