Æ In the name of Magnentius

正面描述	Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Magnentius facing right, rendered in a barbarous style characteristic of Germanic imitative coinage. The effigy is surrounded by a degenerate legend derived from the imperial prototype, the letters having become largely nonsensical through successive copying. The portrait retains the general composition of the official Magnentius issues but exhibits provincial abstraction in the facial features and drapery treatment.
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附加信息	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.

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