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Contributor: Jim Shaffer.
Issuer: MAXIMUS, son of Maximinus I, Caesar AD 235-238. AE Sesterius
Obverse: MAXIMVS CAES. GERM., His draped and bare headed bust right.
Reverse: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, with "S C" in fields. Maximus standing left, holding baton and sceptre, two standards to right.
Reference: RIC 13 (Maximus); Sear 2378.
Comments: For more information, read the "Maximinus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Maximinus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.