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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8313925, member: 99456&quot;][USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER], and interesting coin and your website a valuable resource.&nbsp;&nbsp; I will deviate from the request and share my only Magnentius which is lacking any Christian symbols - at 2.81 grams perhaps this is a &quot;half-maiorina&quot; from Lugdunum - in the family of your 6.3 coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1471809[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Imperial, Magnentius</b>, AD 350-353, Æ half-maiorina (?) (17-18mm, 2.81g, 5h), Lugdunum (Lyon) mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Bareheaded and cuirassed bust right; A behind</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Two Victories standing facing one another, holding wreath inscribed VOT/V/MVL/X in four lines; /SV//RPLG</p><p><b>Ref:&nbsp; </b>uncertain; this looks official to me (not expert in late Roman) - at this weight and with legend &quot;MVL/X&quot; it does not appear to be catalogued in RIC - see similar heavier coin RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.8.lug.130" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.8.lug.130" rel="nofollow">VIII Lugdunum 130</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A fun MACENTIUS, I would expect coins that do not exist to be priceless.....and I enjoyed the story of the iota in ὁμο<b>I</b>ούσιον τῷ Πατρί.&nbsp; I was reading recently of the divide from the time of Anastasius (reign 491–518) between Chalcedonians (Jesus is one person with two natures) Miaphysites (Jesus is one nature - μία &quot;one&quot; plus φύσις &quot;nature&quot;) - Anastasius a Miaphysite.&nbsp; A concordance found in AD 1990 with some careful wording.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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