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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Unofficial & Barbaric| > RA91692
Roman Empire, Two Roman Imitative Barbarous Radiates, c. 270 A.D.
|Unofficial| |&| |Barbaric|, |Roman| |Empire,| |Two| |Roman| |Imitative| |Barbarous| |Radiates,| |c.| |270| |A.D.|, During the Crisis of the Third Century (235 - 284 A.D.) the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression. In the western provinces, official mints did not meet the needs for low-value coinage and unofficial private mints struck imitations of Roman coins (usually antoniniani). These unofficial imitations, called barbarous radiates today, were not counterfeits. They were smaller than standard issues, were not intended to deceive, and probably only functioned as small change.
RA91692. Two barbarous radiates, 1) imitative of a Quintillus antoninianus (r. 270 A.D., 2.132g, 20.3mm) and 2) imitative of a Claudius Gothicus antoninianus (r. 268 - 270 A.D., 1.733g, 16.5mm); from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; SOLD











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