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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 7761778, member: 10613&quot;]this is probably my current favorite &quot;barb&quot; of Magnentius</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330873[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Magnentius</p><p>circa A.D. 350-3</p><p>20x21mm&nbsp; &nbsp; 4.0gm</p><p>[D N MAGNEN]-TIVS P F AV[G]; bare-headed, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right, A behind bust.</p><p>SALVS [DD NN AVG ET C]AES; large Chi-Rho flanked by N-W</p><p>In ex. TRP</p><p>Cf. RIC VIII Trier 320</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>and a neat one that I sold</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a copy of a very rare type- VICTORIA AVG LIB ROMANOR. The mintmark TR means it was copying a Trier coin, but RIC does not even list this type in bronze from Trier, but it does have it in gold. Perhaps an official example is out there that this coin copied. There are bronzes with this reverse from Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330876[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>19x21mm&nbsp; &nbsp; 3.9gm</p><p>VICTORIA AVG LIB ROMANOR; Victory stg. right; Libertas, holding transverse scepter in l. hand, stg. L. They support between them a plain shaft carrying a trophy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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