Posted 03/11/2014 7:13 pm
More likely to be Magnentius. This is a damaged coin - Magnentius Coinage was destroyed when he rebellion was crushed - melted down. Some tribes in East Anglia cut up his folles into minims and put a punch through his eye to darn his memory to allow the coinage to continue to circulate.
2 things about the state of the coin - 1, the cut isn't straight, all cut coinage is cut in straight lines, 2, the edge of the cut is damaged, this means it could be very recent - an ancient cut would have a patina over it. if it does have patina, this just measn the damage isn't recent - it oculd have been hit by a medieval plough.
2 things about the state of the coin - 1, the cut isn't straight, all cut coinage is cut in straight lines, 2, the edge of the cut is damaged, this means it could be very recent - an ancient cut would have a patina over it. if it does have patina, this just measn the damage isn't recent - it oculd have been hit by a medieval plough.
