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Æ31 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΤΕΙΜΟΘΕΟΥ Γ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | Γ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜΟϹ ΚΑΙ (Translation: Gaius Julius Verus Maximus Caesar) |
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Maximinus Thrax never set foot in the eastern provinces — his entire reign was consumed by military campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers, and he was dead before completing three years in power. Civic bronzes like this one from Magnesia ad Maeandrum were struck entirely on local initiative, the city leveraging the obligatory imperial portrait to conduct its own religious and civic business. The magistrate named in the legend, Teimotheou, is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record.