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Æ In the name of Constantine I, Sketched legend
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 325-425 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Barbarous imitation of a Roman votive reverse type, featuring a wreath motif enclosing a garbled pseudo-Latin inscription arranged in three or four lines across the central field. The wreath, imitating the laurel or olive wreath commonly employed on Roman Constantinian votive issues, forms a border around the central legend panel. The lettering is a crude, non-functional rendering of the Roman votive formula referencing the vicennalia and tricennalia vows, reduced to schematic strokes by an artisan unfamiliar with Latin. The overall composition faithfully echoes the layout of official Roman votive coinage of the early fourth century while betraying its unofficial, Germanic origin through the degenerate letterforms and irregular strike. |
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Barbarian imitations of Constantinian bronzes circulated widely across the Rhine and Danube frontiers during the fourth and early fifth centuries, produced by Germanic groups who lacked formal minting infrastructure but not the demand for small exchange media. The legends on these pieces were copied by die-cutters with no Latin literacy, degrading through successive generations of imitation into meaningless scratches — what catalogers call "sketched" or "blundered" legends.
The Arslan corpus leaves this specific type unassigned, which places it among the more poorly documented frontier issues.