Catalog
1 Denarius - Imitating Antoninus Pius, 138-161
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 175-275 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crude barbarous imitation of an imperial Roman denarius, depicting a laureate male bust facing right, rendered in a simplified, provincial style characteristic of Germanic imitative coinage. The portrait shows a bare-necked effigy with loosely modeled facial features and schematic hair. A debased and garbled legend surrounds the bust, derived from the original Antoninus Pius imperial titulature but rendered as meaningless pseudo-Latin letterforms by an engraver unfamiliar with the Latin alphabet. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | VITASAOAZAIAV[...] - [...]IRAIILI |
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