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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 494961, member: 6370&quot;]After a debate I had with some other people interested in this, we feel it could very well be Maximinus Thrax...I have one of his coins here:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/thrax.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now this is just conjecture and maybe it will be proved wrong later, but I think it might be because of this battle mentioned in the albeit untrustwothy Historia Augusta:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><i>Maximinus wasted no time in turning his attentions to the upstart German tribes but not before quickly suppressing plots that had already formed to remove him. First by the ex-consul Magnus to have disloyal soldiers destroy the bridge that allowed Maximinus to return across the Rhine; the other an uprising by disgruntled soldiers who accompanied Alexander from the East and who championed the recently dismissed provincial governor Quartinus as a rival emperor.</i></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><i>This being done <b>he marched his army in full strength across the Rhine</b> burning and looting the villages that were all but abandoned by <b>German warriors looking to gather and engage on terrain more favorable to them thus giving them the advantage</b>. When he did engaged the German forces where they had gathered in the<b> marshlands</b>, it is said: </i></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><i><font face="Arial"><font size="2">&#039;the emperor took charge of the battle in person with great braver</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="2">y. <b>Maximinus took the lead by plunging into the marsh</b> on horse-back (even though the level of the water came over the horse&#039;s belly), and killed many of the barbarians that resisted.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="2">&#039;</font></font></i></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><i>His example of bravery and skill in battle is said to have inspired his troops to fight and win the day even though they faced a larger force in hostile terrain. </i></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Just a possibility. There are many emperors who engaged the Germans around the time...before and after so in the end its hard to say.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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