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Maiorina - Magnentius VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAES, without cippus, with chrism, Treveri
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 351 |
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| Currency | Solidus, Reform of Constantine (AD 310/324 – 395) |
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| Reverse lettering | VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAES VOT / V / MVLT / X |
| Edge | Plain |
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Magnentius seized power in January 350 by murdering Constans at a hunting lodge in the Pyrenees, and his coinage immediately deployed Christian imagery — including the prominent Chi-Rho — to legitimize a regime that needed the western church's tacit approval. The version without a cippus is the more common of the Trier variants catalogued under RIC VIII 315, though the distinction matters to type collectors working through the LRBC sequence.
His defeat at Mursa Major in 351 — one of the bloodiest engagements of the fourth century — effectively ended his ability to control western mints. Trier production wound down sharply after that campaign.