Abstract
Abstract. - A second antoninianus in the name of Silbannacus confirms and authentifies the so far unique coin kept in the British Museum, which bears the effigy of this otherwise unknown third-century emperor. Indeed, no epigraphic or historic ancient source makes any reference to a Silbannacus. The new antoninianus has been struck from the same obverse die as the first, but the reverse displays a new type, which bears a close relation to another brief reign, that of Aemilian. It is now possible to date Silbannacus' usurpation : the autumn of 253 AD, and to identify the mint which issued his coinage : not a temporary mint on the Rhine frontier, but the mint of Rome itself.
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