VICTORIA AVG

Radiate and cuirassed bust of Silbannacus to the right, seen from three quarters back.

Mercury naked and standing left, capped with petasius, holding a victory placed on a globe with the right hand as well as a short caduceus with the left hand.

Unique copy preserved at the British Museum. Link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1937-1203-1. Registration number 1937,1203.1. Coin bought in 1937 from a Zurich merchant: Dr H.Nussbaum.

Commentary of the currator of the British Museum: ''This coin long remained doubtful (and at best misattributed) until the 1990s discovery near Paris of a second example with die-identical obverse but a Mars reverse type used by Aemilian (to whose radiates from the mint of Rome they are similar in style and fabric). Despite the French findspots for both Silbannacus coins (current example was found in Lorraine) and his Gallic-sounding name, his brief usurpation must have included dominion over Rome (and little else) where his coinage was apparently made. This is all the more remarkable given that he is historically unattested. (The story of this coin parallels those of the Gallic emperor Domitian of Gaul). See S. Estiot in Revue Numismatique (1996, 105-117)''.

The other coin with type MARTI PROPVGT is classified AYC #1.