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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Maximinus I| > RS79612
Maximinus I Thrax, 20 March 235 - Late May 238 A.D.
|Maximinus| |I|, |Maximinus| |I| |Thrax,| |20| |March| |235| |-| |Late| |May| |238| |A.D.|, In 237, Maximinus Thrax campaigned on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni. He never visited Rome. He taxed the rich aristocracy heavily and engendered such hostility among them that they plotted against him.
RS79612. Silver denarius, Alram MIR 28-3, RIC IV 4, RSC III 56, BMCRE VI 157, SRCV III 8312 var. (no GERM), Hunter III -, Choice EF, excellent portrait, mint luster, excellent centering and strike, minor die wear, Rome mint, weight 3.401g, maximum diameter 20.6mm, die axis 0o, 5th emission, 237 A.D.; obverse MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse P M TR P II COS P P (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power for two years, consul, father of the country), Maximinus standing half-left, raising right hand, spear in left, flanked by a standard on each side; SOLD










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Sear, D. Roman Coins and Their Values III, The Accession of Maximinus I to the Death of Carinus AD 235 - AD 285. (London, 2005).
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