I saw this coin over at a Facebook page. It didn't have any kind of description so I am posting it here to see if anyone can identify it.. I think this Emperor is my doppelganger! What do you think?
Victor beat me to it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roman-emperors-totalus-rankium/id1111831730 Maximinus I was 235 to 238. He was reportedly 7 feet tall. There's the link to the Totalus Rankium podcasts.
Historians and numismatists have long speculated that Maximinus had acromegaly; which can be demonstrated by his changing appearance on his coinage. early later
Maximinus also did a lot to usher in the financial collapse of the third century, for he doubled the salary of the soldiers, who had also been given a payraise by Caracalla, who had massively increased their salary. The commensurate financial extractions which he brutally rung out of the populace led to his downfall, and his head was displayed on a pike.
Maximinus Thrax (could've been called Max the Thrax). He was born in the province of Thrace - hence his origo. He enlisted in the army and had a brilliant career. He accessed to the equestrian order and even commanded garrisons of the limes. Under Severus Alexander he was responsible for recruiting new soldiers and training them. He had the reputation of being a tough instructor, but became a charismatic commander. During a war in Germany in 235, his men assassinated the emperor Severus Alexander and his mother Julia Mamaea, and he was immediately proclaimed Augustus by the troops. For the first time a man from humilior origin became an emperor. He never went to Rome, and spent all his short reign fighting the Germans. His politics were all in favor of the military : he raised the taxes to raise the soldiers' pay. In 238, in Rome, the senators revolted. They elected Gordianus, the proconsul of Africa, as new Augustus. There was a civil war, All his competitors (Gordianus I, Gordianus II, Balbinus and Pupienus) were defeated and assassinated. The last emperor proclaimed by the senate against Maximinus was a child, Gordian III. Maximinus marched to Rome but was assassinated too, and his head displayed on a pole. In the British Museum there is an interesting sestertius defaced by some opponent to celebrate the beheading of Maximinus :
