Maximinus I, AE48 medallion of Sardes, Lydia. 32.77 gr. 235-238. Magistrate Menestratianos.

AYT K G I OYH MAXIMEINOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
EPI CEP MENECTRATIANOY ARX A CARDIANWN DIC NEWKORWN, Herakles 
walking right, holding club, and leading a humped bull to a 
flaming altar which stands before a statue of Zeus Lydios, 
holding eagle and sceptre, on a cylindrical base inscribed 
ZEYC-LYDI-OC in three lines. On the base stand three caryatids 
supporting the cornice above which is the actual fireplace of the 
altar from which massive flames are rising with four bulls' 
heads amid the flames.

GRPC Lydia 635, otherwise unpublished.
With permission of Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 154, lot 426, 11 June 2012.