late Roman VOTA imitations

I have a selection of FEL TEMP barbs..... I find them quite interesting

Hut - Imitating Lugdunum

In quite good style too



I have a few Galley Types

Imitating Trier



Imitating Aquileia



Horseman

Imitating Constans

A small one at 12.77 mm


Imitating Constantius II



And a really odd Imitating Decentius

 

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Many thanks for the references (and other comments). I found an article on Academmia.edu "A problematic group of Late Roman bronze coins from Dobruja". These coins include imitations of the fallen-horsman-type that we discussed earlier. Hence, this would confirm that the coins come from the Balkan region. Maybe these coins were minted in the Roman province of Thrace, which was under pressure from Goths at the time.

 

Victor listed some major references and his page about late Roman imitations:
http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/barb2/
I have a page about reference works on ancient imitations:
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitationrefs.html
It hasn't been updated in a decade, but was pretty comprehensive when it was written.

Here is my favorite late Roman "barbarous" imitation. It is a large AE1.



Valentinian, 364-375.
28 mm. 10.365 grams. This coin is a little bit heavier than the originals!
DN VALENTINI-ANVS PF AVG
RESTITVTOR IIPVBLICAE
BSIRM
Prototype RIC IX Sirmium 3 "R3", struck "25 Feb. 364 - end 364"