Maximinus I AE Sestertius. 

MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust 
seen from the front.
FIDES MILITVM S-C, Fides standing left holding two standards.

RIC 78 type 2; 

Choice EF. One of the finest examples I've seen both in style and condition with a wonderful portrait. The 
numismatic busts of Maximinus are almost always depicted 
with the shoulders viewed from the side or slightly from 
behind while this example is an extremely rare angled 
front view. Michael Alram, in Vol. 27 of 'Moneta Imperii Romani', 1989 Vienna, lists only a few examples of Sesterii 
busts rendered from this angle in the major collections, but 
none of the 84 listed Fides reverse types having this bust 
type. There is however a medallion of the same issue with a 
very similar bust. 
Extremely rare and worthy of the finest collection.

With kind permission of www.edgarlowen.com, Nov. 2011.