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Vetranio
Augustus
AD 350

AE AE 3 - Half Centenionalis
Siscia mint: AD 250

Coins Catalog ID: 3005

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Sales Description
Obverse: D N VETRANIO P F AVG - Pearl diademed bust right, draped and cuirassed.
Reverse: VIRTVS AVGVSTORVM - Emperor in military dress standing right, holding spear and globe and kicking a seated captive.
Mint marks: 
exergue - ASIS
References: 
RIC, vol. VIII, p. 370, 296

Vetranio - No data

Mints: Siscia.

Biography: When Constans II was killed by his soldiers and Magnentius usurped the purple, Vetranio, a commander on the Danube, proclaimed himself Augustus. He then decided to ally himself to Magnenitius and supported his claim, but soon had a change of heart and went over to Constantius II. In the months that followed, as Magnentius and Constantius II attempted to sort out their differences without success and then went into an armed confrontation, Vetranio decided he had little chance for success. He issued coins with the traditional inscription of Constantine's family, "By this sign you shall conquer," handed his troops over to Constantius II at Naissus, and withdrew into a honorable retirement at Prusa in Bithynia.

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