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Antoninianus - Domitianus II CONCORDIA MILITVM
| Issuer | Gallic Empire |
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| Year | 270-271 |
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| Reference(s) | OCRE#ric.5.dom_g.1 |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Concordia facing left or front, personifying military harmony, rendered in the typical iconographic style of the Gallic Empire period. The legend CONCORDIA MILITVM encircles the reverse field, invoking the concordance of the armies, a common propaganda theme employed by Gallic Empire usurpers to assert legitimacy. The reverse type follows the standard antoninianus format of the period, with simple, boldly struck design elements consistent with provincial workshop production. The flan is irregular, as is characteristic of hammered coinage from this era. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Domitianus II ruled for perhaps two weeks. His existence was doubted entirely by modern scholars until 1900, when a single antoninianus surfaced at Nîmes, and again dramatically confirmed in 2003 when a hoard from Chalgrove, Oxfordshire yielded a second specimen. Before that hoard, fewer than a handful of coins attributed to him were considered authentic. The Chalgrove find, now in the Ashmolean, remains the primary physical evidence that this emperor existed at all.