Barbarous subaerate aureii imitating Probus circulated in Germanic territories well beyond the reach of Roman monetary infrastructure. These are not crude forgeries in the modern criminal sense — they were likely tolerated or even produced semi-officially to meet demand for gold-denomination currency in frontier exchange economies where Roman supply was irregular. The core is bronze with a gold wash thin enough that most examples show significant base-metal bleed through wear points.
Attribution to specific tribes remains impossible without archaeological provenance. The date range extends nearly half a century past Probus's assassination in 282.
Barbarous subaerate aureii imitating Probus circulated in Germanic territories well beyond the reach of Roman monetary infrastructure. These are not crude forgeries in the modern criminal sense — they were likely tolerated or even produced semi-officially to meet demand for gold-denomination currency in frontier exchange economies where Roman supply was irregular. The core is bronze with a gold wash thin enough that most examples show significant base-metal bleed through wear points.
Attribution to specific tribes remains impossible without archaeological provenance. The date range extends nearly half a century past Probus's assassination in 282.