Æ In the name of Constantius II, Horseman facing up, soldier kneeling on horse

These barbarous imitations of late Roman bronze coinage proliferated across the frontier zones during the political fragmentation of the western empire, produced by Germanic groups who needed recognizable currency for trade without access to imperial mint infrastructure. The Constantius II horseman types were among the most widely copied, their bold, simple imagery lending itself to increasingly abstracted local reproduction over successive generations of dies cut by non-specialist hands.

Attribution to a specific tribal group remains impossible without a documented find context. The weight of 4.87g sits above the mean for most imitative pieces, suggesting an earlier casting within this bracket rather than a later, debased iteration.