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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 4920995, member: 75482&quot;]Both clipped Magnentian coins and tiny imitations are well-documented in Britain. They are roughly contemporaneous with the &quot;fallen horseman&quot; copies. According to Boon (&#039;Counterfeit coins in Roman Britain&#039;, p. 140), the striking of bronze at Trier, a main mint for Britain, &quot;was virtually suspended from c. 353 to 364&quot;. The resulting shortage stimulated a wave of epidemic counterfeiting not unlike that which had produced the barbarous radiates in the previous century. Plate VIII accompanying Boon&#039;s article includes not only a cut-down Magnentius (148) and a tiny Magnentian minim struck from unofficial dies (150), but also a half-moon shaped &quot;offcut&quot; of a Magnentius maiorina (149) produced by cutting two tiny minimi out of the larger official coin. Also shown is a fallen-horseman minim (157). Boon&#039;s theory is profit. The module of the imitations diminishes as the circulating medium is cycled by the counterfeiters, each time converting a given number of collected coins, perhaps already lightweight copies, into a greater number of new coins. [ATTACH=full]1185544[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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