Description
Instead of the standard portrait of the emperor on the obverse, this coin shows a seated figure wrapped in-a long garment, with a smaller figure in front of her. This is believed to be either Tyche or a personification of Antioch. These coins don’t technically bear the emperor’s name, so are sometimes called ”anonymous pagan issues.“ They circulated during-Maximinus II’s persecution of Christians, so perhaps they were a reminder that the empire supported and was supported by the old gods.-personification of Antioch, with the river god Orontes in the foreground.