456, Lot: 517. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Magnentius. AD 350-353. Æ Double Centenionalis (25.5mm, 7.94 g, 6h). Ambianum (Amiens) mint. 7th phase, January-10 August AD 353. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / large Christogram; A ω flanking; AMB. RIC VIII 34; Bastien 135; LRBC 19. Brown patina. Superb EF.

Ex Bridgnorth Hoard (2007), no. 238.

On October 10th, 2007 a metal detectorist discovered a large scattered hoard of late Roman coins that had been disturbed by deep plowing in a potato field near Bridgnorth, Shropshire. The hoard had been contained in a large pottery vessel (broken by the plow), most probably previously used as a cooking pot as evidenced by burns marks on the outer edges. The pot had been buried in a U-shaped gully or ditch that formed part of an otherwise unknown late Roman site. The hoard consisted of 2,892 coins, ranging in date from a Reform Antoninianus of Probus to post Magnentian issues of Constantius II up to A.D. 355. Coins of Magnentius and Decentius made up 75% of the hoard.