#silbannacus

[twofielder]

whats your dream coin?

It’s a total fantasy but I really want a coin of Silbannacus.

Silbannacus was completely forgotten by history until a single coin of his was discovered in the 1930s. A second was discovered in the 1980s and that’s it. Only two little coins that record that this guy ever lived and they were lost for over a thousand years.

He may have been a brief usurper or even a legitimate emperor sometime around 248-253 but there’s no way to know for sure at the moment because, you know, only two coins to prove that he even existed.

What ever happened to Mar. Silbannacus?

[ladyfindel]

Silbannacus: the unknown Roman emperor

#Silbannacus: the unknown Roman emperor. #archaeology #ancientrome #history Read it here:

Historians have written a lot about the Roman empire; still it seems not all is known about the last few centuries. Two unique coins, one acquired by the British Museum in 1937 through a Swiss coin dealer who got it in the northwest of France, and a second one which surfaced in 1996.   The inscription on one coin read, probably, Imperator Marcius Silbannacus Augustus. The coin was perfectly…

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