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ID: |
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77001076 |
| Type: |
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Goths, Vandals |
| Region: |
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Uncertain Germanic Tribes |
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City:
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Uncertain |
| Issuer: |
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Marcian |
| Date Ruled: |
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AD 450-457
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| Metal: |
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Gold |
| Denomination: |
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Solidus |
| Struck / Cast: |
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struck |
| Date Struck: |
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AD mid. 5th Century |
| Weight: |
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4.52 g |
| Die Axis: |
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5 h |
| Obverse Legend: |
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CN IIΛRCIΛ INVS V F ΛVC (some letters retrograde) |
| Obverse Description: |
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Helmeted, diademed, and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear in right hand, shield on left arm |
| Reverse Legend: |
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VICTORI-Λ ΛVCCC |
| Reverse Description: |
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Victory standing left, holding in right hand a long cross with labarum-like ornamentation at the top; star to right; Δ |
| Primary Reference: |
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Gorny & Mosch 134, lot 3339 (same rev. die), otherwise unpublished |
| Photograph Credit: |
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Classical Numismatic Group |
| Source: |
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http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=115499 |
| Notes: |
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Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1076 Ex Baldwin’s 47 (25 September 2006), lot 227.Imitations of Marcian’s coinage are extremely rare, with apparently the only example published being a solidus found in Scandinavia (J.M. Fagerlie, Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi found in Sweden and Denmark, NNM 157 [1967], pl. XVI, 377). The engraving of that coin, however, is significantly different from the present and Gorny specimens. |
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