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Constantius II BI Double Centenionalis. Treveri, AD 352. D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS AVG NOSTRI, large Chi-Rho; A-Ѡ across fields, TRP* in exergue. RIC VIII 332. 5.01g, 24mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a Romanophile.
This issue dates to the brief period (perhaps a month) of Poemenius' revolt, in which the city mint stopped issuing coinage for Magnentius and Decentius, and instead issued a hybrid series with obverses in the name of Constantius II and using Magnentius' Chi-Ro types for the reverses - a series which 'heralded the Magnentian clan's consequential loss of power at Trier and in the West' (Holt, The Evidence of the Coinage of Poemenius' Revolt at Trier, American Journal of Numismatics 15, Second Series, 2003: p.72) and foreshadowed their defeat by Constantius II at the Battle of Mons Seleucus and subsequent suicide later that year.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a Romanophile.
This issue dates to the brief period (perhaps a month) of Poemenius' revolt, in which the city mint stopped issuing coinage for Magnentius and Decentius, and instead issued a hybrid series with obverses in the name of Constantius II and using Magnentius' Chi-Ro types for the reverses - a series which 'heralded the Magnentian clan's consequential loss of power at Trier and in the West' (Holt, The Evidence of the Coinage of Poemenius' Revolt at Trier, American Journal of Numismatics 15, Second Series, 2003: p.72) and foreshadowed their defeat by Constantius II at the Battle of Mons Seleucus and subsequent suicide later that year.