Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1233. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamum. Maximinus I Thrax. 235-238 AD. Æ 42mm (43.30 gm). Laureate, draped and curiassed bust right / Demeter and Maximinus standing left, heads turned to face one another; Demeter holds poppy and grain ear in right hand and torch in left, Maximinus drops incense onto altar and holding spear. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC Mysia -; Mionnet -. Unpublished in the catalogues of the major collections. Good VF/Near VF, green patina, porous. Very Rare. ($500)

Maximinus' coins are frequently encountered with the legends and portrait obliterated which suggests a profound hatred of his regime by the city's inhabitants.