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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2603007, member: 44316"]I love barbarous imitations, and yours is special. I wonder if the end of the obverse legend is AVGG with the second G large and partially off the flan. GG is a common plural ending, although not usually on the obverse. Here is another Decentius imitation:[ATTACH=full]568482[/ATTACH] Superb ancient imitation. DN DECENTIVS NOB CAES, bare head, draped and cuirassed, right letters in very good style, with the "A" more like an "H".   /VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE   /two Victories holding shield inscribed "VOT/V/MVL/X" on column, S and V to either side of column   /AMB in exergue (Ambianum mint) References:  RIC VIII Ambianum 6, page 122 "S" for type, but Ambianum issues do not have letters in the field, which are only on issues from Lugdunum, e.g. RIC Lugdunum 125-133, Bastien V.169-171, 174-179, and 182-189. Bastien (2nd Ed.) XVII.34 has a die-identical reverse with a Magnentius obverse in the "imitation" section. If like ancient imitations, they are discussed at my site:<a href="http://esty.ancients.info/imit/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/imit/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/imit/</a>[/QUOTE]