Maximinus Thrax never set foot in Egypt. He ruled the province entirely through prefects, and Alexandria's mint responded to his reign with the usual bureaucratic compliance — tetradrachms struck to formula, cycling through regnal years with little variation. This piece, dated to his third year (L Γ), belongs to a reign that ended violently in 238 AD when his own soldiers killed him outside Aquileia after a failed siege, making his Egyptian coinage a closed series of just three years.
Maximinus Thrax never set foot in Egypt. He ruled the province entirely through prefects, and Alexandria's mint responded to his reign with the usual bureaucratic compliance — tetradrachms struck to formula, cycling through regnal years with little variation. This piece, dated to his third year (L Γ), belongs to a reign that ended violently in 238 AD when his own soldiers killed him outside Aquileia after a failed siege, making his Egyptian coinage a closed series of just three years.