Æ36 - Maximinus ΕΠ Ϲ ΑΥ ΑΠΦΙΑΝΟΥ ΦΩΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces — he spent his entire reign campaigning on the Rhine and Danube frontiers, making the civic bronze issues of Asia Minor struck in his name acts of administrative loyalty rather than personal imperial presence. Phocaea, an ancient Ionian city whose earlier archaic electrum coinage had helped establish coin use across the Mediterranean, was operating under the conventus system by this period, with Smyrna serving as the judicial and administrative center to which Phocaean civic issues were ultimately accountable.

The magistrate name ΑΠΦΙΑΝΟΣ appearing in the inscription places this within a documented sequence of Phocaean civic bronzes attributable to that office-holder's term.