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Æ37 - Maximinus ΕΠ ϹΤΡΑ ΦΛ ΠΑΥϹΕΡΩΤΟϹ ΚΥΜΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Cyme (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gaius Julius Verus Maximus Caesar facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the rear, a common artistic convention on provincial bronzes of the Severan and Maximinian periods. The portrait displays the characteristic youthful features associated with Maximus as Caesar, with the laureate wreath clearly articulated around the head. The circular Greek legend surrounds the bust, distributed across the full periphery of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Γ Ι ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜΟϹ Κ (Translation: Gaius Julius Verus Maximus Caesar) |
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Cyme, one of the oldest Greek foundations on the Aeolian coast, retained the right to strike civic bronze under Roman imperial oversight, with the magistrate's name — here Flavius Pauseros, serving as strategoseponymous — prominently recorded as a mark of local accountability rather than imperial mandate. The office was genuine civic administration, not ceremonial.
Maximinus I never visited the eastern provinces. His three-year reign was spent entirely on campaign in the west and north, making every eastern civic issue struck in his name a product of loyalty to an emperor the issuing city almost certainly never saw.