Another Fel temp (not Constantius, Constans, Gallus or Julian II)

Finally nabbed a temp of Magnentius. Not a horseman, but rather a galley.




Magnentius. AE3. Trier. 350-353 AD. IM CAE MAGN-ENTIVS AVG, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right, A behind bust / FEL TEMP-REPARATIO, emperor standing left on galley, holding Victory and labarum, Victory seated at the helm. A in left field. Mintmark TRP. RIC VIII Trier 260; Sear 18788.

 

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Nice one, good detail especially the reverse.

 

Great score, geki ... man, your collection continues to impress!




Ummm, this is my only Magnentius example ...

 

Thank you both.
Heres my only other one of Magnentius

 

Cool coin @randygeki, Victory seems relaxing while getting suntanned : cool job !


Magnentius, AE 1 Amiens mint, AD 353
D N MAGNEN TIVS P F AVG, Draped bust of Magnentius right
SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES, Large christogram between alpha and omega. AMB at exergue
9.20 gr
Ref : Cohen #30, LRBC #19, Bastien # 135 (15 ex), RIC # 34 (C)



Magnentius, Maiorina Treveri mint, 1st officina,
DN MAGNENTIVS PF AVG, bare bust draped right, A behind
VICTORIA DD NN AVG ET CAE, two victories holding a wreath where is inscribed : VOT/V/MVLT/X. TRP at exergue
4.73 gr
Ref : Cohen # 68, Roman coins # 4024, LRBC # 56,

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I have one but it is very rough.

Magnentius - Centenionalis

Obv:– IM CAE MAGN-ENTIVS AVG, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right, A behind bust
Rev:– FEL TEMP-REPARATIO, emperor standing left on galley, holding Victory and labarum, Victory seated at the helm. A in left field
Mint – Trier (//TRS). 1st Phase. 18th January A.D. 350 to 27th February A.D. 350
Reference(s) – Cohen 11. Bastien 11 (12). RIC VIII Trier 260

 

Great coins all!

Yours has a better obverse.
Maybe we should try for a head to head on Forvms BoT gallery

 

Super posts!!!



Here's my rather rough example with the 'Christogram'

 

Nice coin, Randy. Surprisingly don't have any of him still.

 

Nice coin, got one of this guy.

 

It seems these are hard to find nice. Mine has flat areas.

The rare, rare Magnentius FTR is the Falling Horseman which I don't have. I do have a barbarous Decentius horseman which does not exist in official according to catalogs but that does not count.

 

Magnentius (Amiens) & son (Lugdunum):

 

Decentius is believed to be the brother of Magnentius by at least some but that is by no means certain. I have never heard him called a son.

 

Oops, you're right! I guess I've just always assumed he was the son. I suppose he could have been, but there's so little on him that nobody knows. Interesting!

 

Decentius is called the brother of Magnentius in a couple of primary sources- below is a line from Aurelius Victor

"Magnentius had entrusted the Gallic provinces to his brother Decentius as Caesar"
De Caesaribus 42

 

that's pretty cool RG...i didn't know there were magnentius coins of the type!

 

Considering Aurelius Victor wrote within a decade of the time of Decentius, I fail to understand why we always see the 'probably' in descriptions. Perhaps it is because anything written by most of the later authors is discounted by the scholars of today. Certainly they have a lot to be desired in terms of history when covering more remote events but Aurelius Victor should be expected to be right on this one.

 

Nice, I've been looking into getting more LRB. Lots of nice examples here to go searching by.