Æ2 - Nepotianus VRBS ROMA, Rome

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.