Æ35 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Γ Ι ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ

Colophon's civic bronze coinage under Maximinus Thrax was issued during the tenure of a local strategos whose name — partially preserved in the obverse legend — anchors the piece administratively to a specific magistracy rather than a regnal year. Maximinus never visited Asia Minor; his legitimacy in the eastern provinces depended entirely on the cooperative machinery of local civic elites like this, men who kept his name on bronze and grain moving through the conventus.

The city had long since lost its classical prominence by the 3rd century, its population largely absorbed into nearby Notion. These civic issues are among the last numismatic evidence of Colophon functioning as an independent administrative unit.