Æ38 - Maximinus ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤ ϹΞ (?) ΟΜ (retrograde) ΑΜΙϹΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΙΚΑΕΩΝ

Amisus held the title of "free city" under Roman administration — a status that granted it the right to mint its own bronze coinage, a privilege jealously maintained from the Hellenistic period onward. The civic year notation, likely ϹΞ (year 260) in the local Amisene era, anchors this piece to the opening of Maximinus Thrax's reign, a soldier-emperor who never set foot in Rome and whose legitimacy depended heavily on provincial loyalty demonstrated through exactly this kind of locally-struck honorific coinage.

The retrograde OM retrograde element in the legend remains a matter of scholarly dispute — whether a die-cutter's error or an abbreviated title imperfectly understood by a local engraver working from a distant exemplar.