Æ In the name of Magnentius

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.