1 Aureus - Imitating Probus, 276-282

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.