The Magnetes of Thessaly were among the more obscure civic minting authorities still operating under Roman imperial oversight in the mid-third century, issuing small bronzes that circulated locally long after most provincial mints had gone quiet. The retrograde, anti-clockwise legend on this piece is not a die-cutter's error — it appears consistently across the type and may reflect a deliberate workshop convention, possibly the hand of a single engraver whose training was irregular or whose model was a reversed impression.
Trebonianus Gallus reigned barely two years before being murdered by his own troops in favor of Aemilianus.
The Magnetes of Thessaly were among the more obscure civic minting authorities still operating under Roman imperial oversight in the mid-third century, issuing small bronzes that circulated locally long after most provincial mints had gone quiet. The retrograde, anti-clockwise legend on this piece is not a die-cutter's error — it appears consistently across the type and may reflect a deliberate workshop convention, possibly the hand of a single engraver whose training was irregular or whose model was a reversed impression.
Trebonianus Gallus reigned barely two years before being murdered by his own troops in favor of Aemilianus.