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1 Siliqua In the name of Valens
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 364-378 |
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| Currency | Solidus (circa 301-750) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A laurel wreath, tied at the base with a pellet, encloses the votive inscription arranged in four lines across the central field. A small motif, likely a wreath or globus, appears at the top of the wreath interior. In the exergue below the wreath, the mint mark ANT is flanked by two pellets, identifying the Antioch mint. The overall style is consistent with Germanic imitative coinage struck in the name of the Eastern Emperor Valens. |
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Germanic tribes along the Rhine and Danube frontiers periodically captured or received Roman silver through tribute, plunder, and payment for auxiliary service, then restruck or imitated it for their own exchange. This piece imitates the siliqua coinage of Valens, whose reign ended catastrophically at Adrianople in 378 — a battle in which Gothic forces annihilated two-thirds of the eastern Roman field army. The volume of Roman silver that changed hands in the aftermath, through looting alone, was substantial enough to seed imitative coin production for decades.