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Æ In the name of Valens
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 375-425 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Barbarous imitation struck in the name of Emperor Valens (364–378 AD), featuring a right-facing diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust rendered in a crude provincial style. The portrait retains the general characteristics of late Roman imperial coinage, including the diadem with pearl decoration and layered drapery over the cuirass, though executed with the stylistic degeneration typical of Germanic imitative issues. The legend, partially legible, reads D N NAHD - IPF[…], a barbarous corruption of the standard Valentinianic formula D N VALENS PERPETVVS AVG. The overall workmanship reflects a non-Roman die-cutter imitating official Roman bronze coinage of the late 4th to early 5th century. |
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| Reverse lettering | [...] - RCVVG[...] [...] (Translation: [Restitutor Rei-publicae] [Restorer of the state]) |
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Produced by Germanic groups operating beyond or along the fractured Rhine-Danube frontier, these unofficial struck bronzes imitated late Roman imperial coinage at a moment when the western administrative apparatus was collapsing too fast to enforce monetary standards. Valens died at Adrianople in 378, but his name continued circulating on coins he never authorized, minted by peoples who found Roman denominations useful precisely because Roman authority was disintegrating.