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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 5491783, member: 56653"]A possible answer might be that this unofficial coinage was made and used during the period between 352 and 357 when the Rhine and parts of rural and suburban Eastern Gaul were de facto ruled by a confederacy of Germanic warlords, with Chnodomar as high king. Taking advantage of the civil war between Magnentius and Constantius II, Chnodomar and his Alamannic raiders spearheaded an invasion of Roman lands crossing the Rhine and defeating the meager defense mounted by Decentius Caesar in 352. As usual, the Germans were not just raiders and thieves, some were modest traders and peasants who moved westward over the Rhine in the wake of the Alamannic invasion. And the AE coinage of Magnentius and Decentius was the legal tender in Gaul so they used that and very likely when that went scarce, it was supplemented with locally-produced Magnentius and Decentius "Rhine-money."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 5491783, member: 56653"]A possible answer might be that this unofficial coinage was made and used during the period between 352 and 357 when the Rhine and parts of rural and suburban Eastern Gaul were de facto ruled by a confederacy of Germanic warlords, with Chnodomar as high king. Taking advantage of the civil war between Magnentius and Constantius II, Chnodomar and his Alamannic raiders spearheaded an invasion of Roman lands crossing the Rhine and defeating the meager defense mounted by Decentius Caesar in 352. As usual, the Germans were not just raiders and thieves, some were modest traders and peasants who moved westward over the Rhine in the wake of the Alamannic invasion. And the AE coinage of Magnentius and Decentius was the legal tender in Gaul so they used that and very likely when that went scarce, it was supplemented with locally-produced Magnentius and Decentius "Rhine-money."[/QUOTE]
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