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CONSTANTIUS II (337-361). Double Centenionalis. Revolt of Poemenius issue(?). Treveri.
Obv: D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG.
Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: SALVS AVG NOSTRI // TRP✷.
Large Christogram; A - ω across field.
RIC 332.
Condition: About extremely fine, minor corrosion.
Weight: 6,74 g.
Diameter: 22 mm.
Numisfitz GmbH
Auction 3 3 Dec 2023, lot 1019
Poemenius was a Late Antique Roman officer. Ammianus Marcellinus (15.6.4) reports that Poemenius led the defence of the city against Decentius, the brother of the usurper Magnentius, on behalf of the inhabitants of Augusta Treverorum (now Trier).
Amm. 15,6.4
After him Poemenius, doomed like evil doers, was haled to execution and perished; he was the man (as we have told above)* who was chosen to protect his fellow-citizens when Treves closed its gates against Decentius Caesar.**
* In one of the lost books.
** Decentius had been given the rank of Caesar by his brother Magnentius.
Poemenius struck bronze coins in the mint of Trier, the reverse motif of which had been introduced by Magnentius with the great Christogram, but with the portrait of Constantius II on the obverse, thus expressing his support for the regular emperor Constantius II. The analysis of the coins showed that this 'revolt of Poemenius' in Trier probably took place in July 353 at the earliest. Ammianus Marcellinus also reports that Poemenius was executed after the failed revolt of Silvanus in 355.
Collezione : Constantius II