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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Maximinus I| > RS97480
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.
RS97480. Silver denarius, RIC IV 3, RSC III 55, BMCRE VI 77, Hunter III 3, SRCV III 8312, EF, excellent portrait, light tone, broad flan, flow lines, edge cracks, nearly as struck but surfaces a little frosty, Rome mint, weight 2.459g, maximum diameter 21.2mm, die axis 180o, 236 A.D.; obverse IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG, 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, head left, wearing diadem and military attire, flanked by a standard on each side, raising right hand, reversed vertical spear in left hand; although not rare, this is the first specimen of this type handled by FORVM; SOLD











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