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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Maximinus I| > RS89749
Maximinus I Thrax, 20 March 235 - Late May 238 A.D.
|Maximinus| |I|, |Maximinus| |I| |Thrax,| |20| |March| |235| |-| |Late| |May| |238| |A.D.|, On 18 March 235 Legio XXII Primigenia mutinied and murdered Severus Alexander and his mother Julia Mamaea near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). On 20 March, Maximinus Thrax, age 62, was proclaimed emperor. He had a Gothic father and an Alan mother. Maximinus a Thracian, was the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
RS89749. Silver denarius, RIC IV 1, RSC III 46, BMCRE VI 11, Hunter III 1, SRCV III 8311, Choice EF, masterpiece portrait, attractive toning, well centered and struck, minor edge split, Rome mint, weight 2.419g, maximum diameter 19.5mm, die axis 180o, 20 March - Dec 235 A.D.; obverse IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse P M TR P P P, Maximinus standing half-left, raising right hand in salute, reversed spear/scepter vertical behind in left hand, flanked in each side by a standard; SOLD











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