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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4196179, member: 56653&quot;]In 350, before the accession of Decentius, Magnentius kept the 348-350 standard -- at Trier the FEL TEMP REPARATIO types were briefly continued and at Arles, Lyon and Trier the FELICITAS REIPVBLICE followed with the same standard. In Rome the coinage continued for Constantius II with the new GLORIA ROMANORVM type probably until mid 351. The rare issues at Aquileia are also of this type, which was also minted by Ales, Amiens, Trier and Lyon. When the VICTORIAE DD NN... made its entrance in 351 it soon became the new standard of Magnentius&#039; regime before the &quot;large chi-rho&quot; type AE1 became the epitome of Magnentius&#039; coinage and a denomination standard that would endure to about 366(?). Now this is just an extremely short and synthetic broad-brush version of an otherwise complex and full of local shades and peculiarities of these very transformative 3 years between 350 and return of the West under Constantius II in the autumn of 353.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS -- here is a nice and rather scarce Magnentius GLORIA ROMANORVUM from the frontier city of Aquileia around early 351:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1076981[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the nimbed emperor on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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