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Æ32 - Maximinus ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ Π ΡΥΝ
| Issuer | Apollonia ad Rhyndacum (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗΡ ΜΑΞΙΜΟϹ ΚΑΙϹ (Translation: Marcus Julius Verus Maximus Caesar) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ Π ΡΥΝ (Translation: of the Apolloniates ad Rhyndacum) |
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Apollonia ad Rhyndacum was a modest Mysian city whose civic coinage under Maximinus Thrax reflects a broader pattern of provincial loyalty-signaling during his reign — an emperor who never visited the eastern provinces and whose legitimacy depended heavily on the formal gestures of cities he would never see. Maximinus was the first emperor of purely non-senatorial background, and many eastern mints struck issues bearing his name almost defensively, as if anticipating the instability that did eventually consume his reign by 238.
The Rhyndacus river gave the city its distinguishing epithet and its commercial relevance.