456, Lot: 518. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Magnentius. AD 350-353. Æ Centenionalis (22mm, 4.31 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 2nd officina. 3rd phase, May-August AD 350. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right; A to left / Magnentius on horseback right, spearing enemy; broken spear and shield below; RSLG. RIC VIII 115; Bastien 161. Traces of toned silvering and brown patina. EF.

Ex Bridgnorth Hoard (2007), no. 117.

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.