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Antoninianus - Claudius II Gothicus CONSECRATIO, Barbarous radiate
| Issuer | Uncertain barbarous city |
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| Year | 270-274 |
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| Value | Antoninianus |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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After Claudius II died of plague in 270 AD, the Roman state issued official consecratio coinage honoring his deification — a series so widely distributed and politically useful that unofficial workshops across Gaul and Britain began copying them almost immediately. These barbarous radiates flooded the northwestern provinces during the monetary chaos of the 270s, when official antoninianii had become so debased and undersupplied that local imitators filled the gap entirely. The coins shrank with each generation of copying, some reaching barely half the size of the prototypes they mimicked.