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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8284263, member: 98035&quot;]Sorry, but I&#039;m going to have to be a skeptic until I can see better pictures. The quality of AE coinage had already gone down the drain by the time Valentinian III died, let alone 20 years later. I&#039;m with [USER=75143]@hotwheelsearl[/USER] on this one - I don&#039;t think there was an engraver at Rome or Ravenna who was talented enough to fit ROMVLVS on an AE4, or that would be bothered to do so for worthless bronze anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that</p><p>1) No AE coinage has ever been found for Romulus</p><p>2) The proposed design is entirely the wrong style for Western coins post-Majorian</p><p>3) Also except for Majorian, post-455 emperors&#039; AE coinage was exclusively monogram types, not crosses, which had gone out of style decades previously.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of it adds up to convince me that this is a genuine Romulus Augustus AE[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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