Vetranio
    | Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Vetranio, who commanded the legions in Illyria and Pannonia at the murder of Constand by Magnentius in AD 350, followed the example of this usurper and assumed the purple at Sirmium. Constantius II marched with his army to meet him, and on a plain near Serdica, Constantius II, appealing to the assembled armies that he was a son og Constantine the Great, Vetranio took off his diadem and abdicated. Constantius II treated him with kindness and allowed him to retire to Prusa in Bithynia, where he spent the remaining six years of his life. The following coins were struck during his short reign of tem months: Gold Coins 1. Obv: DN VETRANIO P P AVG, laureate |bust| of Vetranio to right, with paludamentum ans cuirass. Rev: SALVATOR REIPVBLICAE, Vetranio waling to left, holding the labarum on which Christogram, and spear, and crowned by Victory, holding a palm, who is following him; in the exergue SIS (Sisca); gold. Silver Coins |
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Vetranio
| Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Vetranio, who commanded the legions in Illyria and Pannonia at the murder of Constand by Magnentius in AD 350, followed the example of this usurper and assumed the purple at Sirmium. Constantius II marched with his army to meet him, and on a plain near Serdica, Constantius II, appealing to the assembled armies that he was a son og Constantine the Great, Vetranio took off his diadem and abdicated. Constantius II treated him with kindness and allowed him to retire to Prusa in Bithynia, where he spent the remaining six years of his life. The following coins were struck during his short reign of tem months: Gold Coins 1. Obv: DN VETRANIO P P AVG, laureate |bust| of Vetranio to right, with paludamentum ans cuirass. Rev: SALVATOR REIPVBLICAE, Vetranio waling to left, holding the labarum on which Christogram, and spear, and crowned by Victory, holding a palm, who is following him; in the exergue SIS (Sisca); gold. Silver Coins |
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