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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Meander, post: 5530792, member: 81943&quot;]Great coins of usurpers shown in this thread. Here is mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240758[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Eugenius, Siliqua, 1.76g, Trier, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, D N EVGENI-VS P F AVG, rev. VIRTVS RO-MANORVM, Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear, TRPS in ex.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin comes from a Gussage All Saints hoard. Here is the little backstory, courtesy of Spink and Antiqua Inc:</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins known as the Gussage All Saints Hoard were found on March 21, 2010 on ploughed land in the parish of Gussage All Saints, Dorset in England. The hoard was contained in a small earthenware flagon which was lifted and the taken to the British Museum in London where the coins were then removed and conserved. The hoard comprised 653 Siliquae and nine Miliarenses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Curiously the Miliarenses were found at the top, in the neck of the flagon, which suggest careful packing of the coins into the pot at the time of concealment. The earliest coins were issues of Constantius II, struck 355-61 and the latest issue of Arcadius and Honorius from the Milan mint struck c.395-402. In addition to coins of these emperors, Julian II (as Caesar and Augustus), Jovian, Valentinian I, Valens, Gratian, Valentinian II, Theodosius I, Magnus Maximus, Flavius Victor and Eugenius were all represented.&nbsp; It was noted that Late Roman silver coins were of a high silver content (over 90%), well above the requirements of the Treasure Act. Thus, they constituted a prima facie case of treasure by being silver coins of an antiquity of greater than 300 years and of one find of more than 10 pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins had been in circulation together before their deposition in the early 5th Century A.D. Thus, the hoard dates from the period when the Western Roman Empire, beset with the collapse of the Rhine frontier and invasions in Gaul and Italy, relinquished its authority over Roman Britain which was left to it own devices and increasingly vulnerable to Germanic and Irish raiding.</p><p><br /></p><p>The British Museum purchased one coin. The rest of the coins were returned to the finder and thereafter brought to market in London.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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