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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4744391, member: 56653&quot;]I have just posted some on [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] &#039;s thread, so I&#039;ll just add the bulkiest and weirdest flan possible for an AE2 of Theodosius II, local coinage of/for Cherson:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159453[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And two pre-Visigothic AE2s from Barcino and thereabouts ca. 400-415(?):</p><p><br /></p><p>1. 19mm 2.72g copying the REPARATIO REIPVB type, that saw in Septimania - Aquitaine - Narbonensis - Barcino areas more circulation than just during the later part of Gratian&#039;s reign, as the type was continued by Magnus Maximus to around 387:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159456[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2. AE2 22mm 5.01g possibly copying the <i>maiorinae </i>of Maximus of Barcino (409-411), which in turn were based on the two AE2 types of Magnus Maximus: REPARATIO REIPVB and VICTORIA AVGG (387); this is an extremely well-crafted unofficial variation of the Maximus coinage, up to the bearded bust and the SM[BA] mintmark but, unfortunately, illiterate:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159457[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These were in use in Septimania and Narbonensis, due to lack of official coinage and faltering Imperial administration, when the Visigoths arrived there on the Mediterranean coast around 415. And with them, an ad-hoc copper-silver system on Roman basis was put into place when the small Visigothic <i>siliquae </i>were minted at first for the break-away rebel Priscus Attalus and then for the rightful emperor Honorius by the Visigothic interests. My post on the Visigothic <i>siliquae </i>of Septimania can be read <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-visigothic-siliqua-minted-in-the-name-of-honorius-in-septimania.351687/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-visigothic-siliqua-minted-in-the-name-of-honorius-in-septimania.351687/">here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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