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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 3212380, member: 58462&quot;]It seems like this has been a good year for many on this board.&nbsp; Many beautiful rarities have been posted that have been a pleasure to view.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently picked up a rare last issue of Maximinus Thrax that allowed me to finish my virtual tray of The Year of the Six Emperors along with one Caesar. Admittedly one of these doesn&#039;t really belong but that&#039;s the way it goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s actually kind of a miserable collection as they were all murdered or committed suicide.&nbsp; I especially feel bad for Gordian I and II but, again, that&#039;s the way it goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]834420[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Maximinus I Thrax / P M TR P IIII</b></p><p>Maximinus I. AD 235-238. AR Denarius 2.55 g. Rome mint, 6th officina. 6th emission, December AD 237-April AD 238.</p><p>O: MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>R: P M TR P IIII COS P P Maximinus standing left, raising hand and holding spear; two signa flanking.</p><p>- RIC IV 6; BMCRE 219; RSC 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus took his fourth tribunitian on December 10, 237. Although he wasn&#039;t assassinated till April of the following year, he lost control of the Rome mint that January. This rare last issue of his reign was struck between December 237 and January 238.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]834424[/ATTACH]</p><p>In order from top left to right: Maximinus Thrax, Maximus Caesar,&nbsp; Gordian I, Gordian II, Pupienus, Balbinus and Gordian III.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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