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Description: | Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II, Trier, reverse BEATA TRANQVILLITAS Altar type, mintmark STR[pellet] or perhaps [pellet]STR[pellet], RIC VII, 353 or 382, weight 2.84g, c.AD322. The reverse has been deliberately silvered on the reverse and this plating survives in two patches on either side of the altar. These issues have a certain incipient level of silver but this is only in the region of one-percent and cannot account for the noticeable plating occurring here which covers over the reverse legend. We must conclude that this piece has been deliberately silvered although for what reason remains a mystery. Perhaps the intention was to convey the appearance of an exceptionally worn denarius of an earlier period.
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