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Antoninianus - Tacitus Barbarous imitation
| Issuer | Uncertain barbarous mint |
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| Orientation | 3 o'clock ↑→ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Blundered legend |
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Barbarous radiates imitating Tacitus proliferated rapidly after his death in 276 AD, struck by unofficial mints — likely operating in northern Gaul or Britain — to fill a genuine bronze shortage as central imperial production faltered. The prototypes were copied so many times in succession that later generations of these pieces show the legend degenerating into meaningless strokes, the portrait dissolving into abstraction through accumulated copying error.