Antoninianus - Marius VIRTVS AVG, Uncertain mint

Marius ruled for somewhere between two days and three months in 269 AD — ancient sources disagree, but no modern scholar argues for longer. A former blacksmith or armor-maker elevated by the troops who had just murdered Victorinus's predecessor Postumus, he was himself killed almost immediately, possibly by soldiers who recognized him from his old trade and resented taking orders from a man who had made their equipment. The brevity of the reign makes any surviving issue scarce by default, with production almost certainly confined to Cologne.