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Antoninianus - Tetricus I SPES AVGG, Barbarous imitation
| Uitgever | Uncertain barbarous city |
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| Diameter | 16 mm |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Spes, the personification of Hope, standing left, her garment raised with her left hand and holding a flower in her right hand. The figure is rendered in a simplified, barbarous manner with summary drapery lines and disproportionate anatomy typical of unofficial imitative issues. The surrounding legend, imitating the SPES AVGG reverse type of the official Gallic Empire coinage, is executed in crude, degenerate lettering that closely approximates but does not faithfully reproduce the prototype inscription. The overall composition, while compositionally aligned with the canonical Tetricus I reverse type, exhibits the hallmarks of non-imperial, likely local production. |
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The so-called "barbarous radiates" proliferated across the northwestern provinces — particularly Gaul and Britain — after the central Roman mint supply collapsed in the 260s and 270s. With Tetricus I's Gallic Empire disintegrating and legitimate coin reaching the provinces in insufficient quantities, local workshops, some barely qualifying as mints, began copying antoninianii wholesale. The SPES AVGG type was among the most frequently imitated, likely because examples circulated widely enough to serve as convenient copy models.
Most barbarous radiates shrink progressively across generations of copying. At 2.9g and 16mm, this piece sits on the larger end of the spectrum — probably an early imitation, before successive copying degraded both size and legibility.