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Æ2 - Nepotianus VRBS ROMA, Rome
| Issuer | Rome, Usurpations of |
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| Year | 350 |
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| Currency | Solidus, Reform of Constantine (AD 310/324 – 395) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Nepotianus seized Rome in June 350 AD, his claim resting largely on his maternal connection to Constantine I. His reign lasted twenty-seven days before Magnentius's general Marcellinus crushed the revolt and had him beheaded, his head paraded through the streets on a pike. That extreme brevity makes any coinage struck in his name extraordinarily rare — Rome's mint barely had time to produce a coherent series before the usurpation collapsed entirely.
RIC VIII 202 is among the scarcest issues in the fourth-century Roman bronze sequence by any reasonable measure of surviving specimens.