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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4345847, member: 56653&quot;]This coin comes from a lot of late roman bronzes from Northamptonshire:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1100450[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">AE21mm 4.75g billon bronze maiorina/centenionalis, minted at Lugdunum, cca. early 350(?).</font></p><p><font size="3">DN MAGNEN - TIVS PF AVG; rosette-diademed, draped cuirassed bust r.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;FELICITAS REIPVBLICE; emperor in military dress standing left, holding Victory on globe and labarum.</font></p><p><font size="3">SLG[...]</font></p><p><font size="3">unrecorded in RIC VIII Lyons(?)</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The mintmark without a prefix is not listed for Lugdunum mint coinage during this period. RIC does mention however (footnote p. 184) an &quot;irregular piece in CF (mintmark PLG)&quot; that reads &quot;FEL TEMP - REI PVBLICE&quot; which might point to a brief period in early 350 when the old mintmarks without prefixes from the FEL TEMP REPARATIO series were in use on base metal issues. If indeed there was an early issue with short mintmark of the FELICITAS type, it should probably date to the early part of 350, when things were still rather confusing following the revolt of Magnentius, when money had started being minted for Magnentius but not as a new issue, but rather following the earlier 349 series.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 103 notes a Constantius II with a prefixed mintmark, a strike that should rather date after this short mintmark Magnentius, suggests that this coin presented here is possibly one of the earliest coinages struck for Magnentius at Lugdunum.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone have a short mintmark Magnentius from Lugdunum?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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