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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7323429, member: 19463&quot;]My most attractive Decentius is from Arles and has contrast from sand.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1279791[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you prefer the plain brown wrapper Trier.....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1279792[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>However by far the most interesting slightly related coin is this barbarous falling horseman.&nbsp; The ID of Decentius rather than Magnentius is very questionable but, counting the bumps, there is one too few letters to be Magnentius.&nbsp; When dealing with barbarous coins we can not allow little things like not being known to exist bother us.&nbsp; Perhaps the intent was MAGENTIUS which is supported by the AVG at the end (assuming that detail after the G is part of the shoulder).&nbsp; Anything goes with these.&nbsp; I suspect the mintmark was intended to be TRS partly because more barbarous coins of this period copied Trier but again any guess is as good as another.&nbsp; It certainly would be nice to find another coin from these dies that might make different letters clear but I have not seen one.&nbsp; They say that there is nothing more common than a rare ancient coin but &#039;unique&#039; (strict use of the term - only one of its kind) barbarous coins are as common as ones known from multiple examples.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1279793[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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