Maximinus Thrax — Denarius, SALVS AVGVSTI, Rome

Struck at Rome, AD 235–236, in the opening year of Maximinus Thrax's reign (235–238). Raised to the purple by the army, Maximinus was the first of the soldier-emperors whose accession opened the Crisis of the Third Century, and the Rome mint carried his portrait on the silver denarius in the traditional Severan style. This is one of his first issues.

SALVS AVGVSTI — "the health of the Augustus". Salus, the personification of health and well-being, sits left on a chair, feeding from a patera a serpent that rises from an altar before her. The type was a long-standing Roman prayer for the emperor's safety, here at the very start of a reign that would end violently three years later.

Attribution: RIC IV 14 · BMCRE 22 · RSC 85Mint: RomeWeight: 3.36 gDiameter: 23 mmCatalogued in the NumisLens cabinet — NL-7J7K1-TPESW

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