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Æ In the name of Magnentius
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 350-425 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Magnentius, the Romano-British usurper who seized the western empire in 350 AD before his defeat by Constantius II at Mons Seleucus in 353, left a numismatic afterimage in the Germanic world long after his death. These posthumous imitative bronzes, struck by tribes beyond the frontier, were not official issues — they were produced by peoples who had absorbed Roman coinage deeply enough to reproduce it, but operated entirely outside imperial monetary infrastructure. The Weiller-Dal corpus places related pieces well into the fifth century, meaning some of these circulated decades after Magnentius himself had been erased from official Roman memory.