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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 5511648, member: 56653"]My understanding is that the Germanic control was on the Rhine proper and in some of the Roman hinterland. If that meant some degree of separation between the mint cities -- that kept minting after 352 for both Magnentius and Decentius -- and the territory controlled by the Germanic coalition, then the people, mostly Roman population of Gaul and also Germanic traders and peasants (who where already familiarized with Roman money and with minting their own Roman money from at least the time of the BEATA type, so likely living memory for some Germans in the 350s), needed these unofficial coins to serve their small market needs. In 352 the official coinage of Magnentius and Decentius became of a smaller module which I think these "counterfeits" emulate. In early 353 the official coinage of Magnentius and Decentius introduced the large AE1, which was also copied but in smaller scale. After the reattachment of the West to the Empire of Constantius II, the minting cities reduced their output, which in turn increased the need for small change in the territories under Germanic control. Probably this is when the small AE3-4 unofficial issues copying the earlier Magnentian types started and it's possible that they circulated until at least 357.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 5511648, member: 56653"]My understanding is that the Germanic control was on the Rhine proper and in some of the Roman hinterland. If that meant some degree of separation between the mint cities -- that kept minting after 352 for both Magnentius and Decentius -- and the territory controlled by the Germanic coalition, then the people, mostly Roman population of Gaul and also Germanic traders and peasants (who where already familiarized with Roman money and with minting their own Roman money from at least the time of the BEATA type, so likely living memory for some Germans in the 350s), needed these unofficial coins to serve their small market needs. In 352 the official coinage of Magnentius and Decentius became of a smaller module which I think these "counterfeits" emulate. In early 353 the official coinage of Magnentius and Decentius introduced the large AE1, which was also copied but in smaller scale. After the reattachment of the West to the Empire of Constantius II, the minting cities reduced their output, which in turn increased the need for small change in the territories under Germanic control. Probably this is when the small AE3-4 unofficial issues copying the earlier Magnentian types started and it's possible that they circulated until at least 357.[/QUOTE]
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