Magnentius, the Usurper

I don't mind at all.


Here is an unofficial Magnentius I sold last year. It is copying a very type. The mintmark TR means it was copying a Trier coin, but RIC does not even list this type in bronze from Trier, but it does have it in gold. Perhaps an official example is out there that this coin copied. There are, however, bronzes with this reverse from Rome.


VICTORIA AVG LIB ROMANOR; Victory stg. right; Libertas, holding transverse scepter in l. hand, stg. L. They support between them a plain shaft carrying a trophy. In ex. TR 19x21mm 3.9gm

 

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I really like this portrait style!

 

Here's a nice AE with an unofficial portrait, I think, but with bold engraving and perfectly readable text, an attractive AE21.


Magnentius, AE unofficial, Lyons. Obv. draped and cuirassed bust right. In the left field, a large A. Rev. Two Victories carrying a shield VOT V MVLT (…). Under this, SV. In exergue, RSLC. 20 mm, 4.30 gr.

 

and his brother

RIC 168
D N DECENTI-VS CAESAR - VICTORIAE D D N N AVG ET CAES
VOT/V/MVL/X - FSAR

 

and my most beautiful

RIC 182
D N DECENTIVS CAESAR and A - VICTORIAE D D N N AVG ET CAE
VOT/V/MVL/X - C/IS - SAR

 

Nice one @Rayban35 !

 

Thank you very much

 

+1

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One of my strangest.

Decentius - AE3/4 - Barbarious imitative

Obv:- [D N DECE]NTIVS NOB CAES, Bareheaded cuirassed bust right,
Rev:- FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Soldier spearing fallen horseman, who is seated on the ground reaching upwards, he is wearing a Phrygian cap
Minted in Barabrous (//PT).

 

I think the style at Rome had become quite strange at this point.

Decentius - Centenionalis

Obv:- MAG DECENTIVS NOB CAES, Bareheaded cuirassed bust right, B behind
Rev:- VICT D D N N AVG ET CAES, two Victories standing facing each other, holding between them a wreath inscribed VOT V MVLT X
Minted in Rome (//RB). Beginning A.D. 351 to August 352
Reference(s) – RIC 215. Bastien 481 (4 examples cited)

 

Decentius as Caesar (Chi Rho)

Obv:- DN DECENTIVS NOB CAES; Cuirassed bust facing right.
Rev:- SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES; Large Chi-Rho flanked by A and W
Minted in Lugdunum (//?SLG)

 

Mine is similar except my horseman is falling.