why the S at end speak for it?
As an an example for the
mintmark: TR"S",
Treveri SECVNDA, the 2.
officinaI didnt read C.F. Zschucke works, it dont understand german. Ill try to find it.
Found at
work: "
Zschucke, Die Römische Münzstätte Trier,
side 16"
I am aware of the situation.
I don't have this edition myself, but I can quote a colleague.
"In my experience, these imitations appear quite frequently in British
hoards in the coin trade.
On the other hand, similar pieces can also be found in the finds from the Trier Moselle bridge,
albeit less frequently.
In
his notes on the "
Roman emergency
money" from Trier, Carl-Friedrich
Zschucke explains that the
barbariccoins of the late
Constantine era with reverses such as e.g. B.
GLORIA EXERCITVS and Trier or
Lyon mint marksare an expression of a considerable
money shortage in connection with a
money shortage of 355 - 367 AD."
Like
Zschucke and Hans-Joachim
Kann, I am also firmly convinced that this is "semi-official emergency
money". I would like to question whether these pieces, as
Zschucke points out, were possibly even minted in the Trier
mint itself. I think it is quite conceivable that there may have been other mints in the North-West Provinces, such as e.g. B. in
Britain."
PS: Now regardless of whether it was
cast or minted, this only affects the numismatic assignment of your coin.
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