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Æ37 - Maximinus ΑΡΧ ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΩ ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Blaundus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Weight | 23.23 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Maximinus Thrax facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the rear, displaying the characteristic broad-shouldered military effigy associated with this emperor. The paludamentum is visible over the cuirass, conveying imperial and martial authority. The surrounding Greek legend runs clockwise along the coin's periphery. The portrait style is consistent with the provincial Roman coinage tradition of the Lydian Conventus of Sardis under Maximinus I (235–238 AD). |
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| Reverse description | Heracles depicted nude and advancing to the right, his powerful figure rendered in the Hellenistic athletic tradition favored in Lydian civic coinage. He raises his club aloft in his right hand while grasping the three-headed Cerberus by the scruff with his left, the beast oriented to the left. This scene alludes to the Twelfth Labor of Heracles, the capture of Cerberus from the Underworld, a popular civic reverse type in the region of Lydia. The Greek legend naming the local archon Alexandros and the civic ethnic of the Blaundians encircles the scene. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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