1 Aureus - Imitating Macrinus, 217-218, or Maximinus, 235-238

Barbarous imitations of Roman aurei present a persistent attribution problem — the prototypes here, Macrinus and Maximinus Thrax, were both short-reigned military emperors whose coins circulated heavily along the Rhine and Danube frontiers precisely because their tenures coincided with intensified Germanic contact and pressure. Whoever struck this piece worked from a worn or second-generation prototype, which explains the degraded legend rather than pointing to any particular tribal workshop.

The weight at 7.03g is close enough to official Roman standards that this was almost certainly struck for prestige or exchange with Roman merchants, not as a crude local substitute.