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Æ In the name of Constantine I, Bust facing left, without podium
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 325-425 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | IIIIVIIIID[…]IIIIIIIISSSIISSS (Translation: [Imperator Constantine Perpetuus Augustus] [Emperor Constantine, perpetual August]) |
| Reverse description | Two winged Victories standing facing each other, rendered in a barbarous imitative style, without a podium or altar between them. The figures retain the general posture derived from official late Roman reverse types, though execution is crude and the details are heavily stylised. The scene is encircled by a degenerate legend of pseudo-Latin letterforms. The overall composition reflects an imitation of Roman imperial Victory reverse types circulating in the fourth to early fifth century. |
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Barbarous imitations of Constantinian bronze struck by Germanic groups operating outside imperial borders occupy an awkward historiographical space — too numerous to be rare curiosities, too varied to classify cleanly. The absence of a firm B/Imit reference here reflects exactly that problem: the cataloging of these pieces remains genuinely unresolved, with new die groupings still being proposed.
The leftward bust orientation is a meaningful detail. Imperial Constantinian bronzes almost universally face right; a left-facing bust on an imitation typically signals a copyist working from another copy rather than an official prototype, compressing the transmission error with each generation.