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1 Aureus - Imitating a Later Barracks Emperor
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 290-325 |
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| Value | 1 Aureus |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A fantastical or mythological scene depicting a figure with a bird-like head mounted upon a wolf-headed, multi-legged creature striding to the right, rendered in the crude, imaginative style typical of barbarous Germanic imitative coinage. The composition likely derives from a misunderstood Roman reverse type, with the engraver reinterpreting human and animal forms into hybrid creatures. The surrounding field contains a blundered, pseudo-Latin legend of garbled characters, partially legible but largely corrupted. The overall flat relief and schematic treatment of forms are consistent with non-Roman workshop production. The reverse demonstrates the significant degree of artistic abstraction that occurs when Roman numismatic iconography is transmitted through non-literate Germanic intermediaries. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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