Very true. Coins were sometimes used as gaming tokens, weights, jewellery, raw material sources and others. These secondary uses could have left...
I'm no expert, but I would have expected a disfiguration of the emperor's face or a clear cut across his neck if it was a deliberate act of...
Great write-up, exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I have two Tacitus Antoniniae, which celebrate his Gothic victory. Here is one...
Imagine, instead of antiquities he had faked dollar bills. The state would not have shown so much leniency, I think. As for the victims of this...
Please do and let me know if you find something. I'm really interested in establishing the truth about these coins, but I'm strongly inclined to...
No, I probably just misread. I thought that you meant that the usurpation of Odovacer in 476 was used as pre-text for the invasion of Italy in...
Yes maybe I misread your post, sorry.
I agree, the coin is from the same dies. The dot below the V on the obverse is helpful in determining die-identity. What you wrote about the dots...
I have another imitative solidus of Theodosius II, which was also found in western Ukraine. Obv.: DN THEODOVS PF AVG Rev.: INP (inverted) XXXIIX...
Many thanks. I found a third piece on acsearch. So I have four pictures below. They are clearly die-identical, from what I can see. There is a...
I think its Victorinus.
Thanks lot for the info and the link. Somehow I can't see the picture though, but found it on Forum Ancient Coins. I'm quite certain that my coin...
The western empire disintegrated in stages over the course of around 100 years (as I wrote earlier). In AD 535 nobody would have regarded the year...
Hm, I think I understand what you mean, but still both size and weight are irrelevant for the debasing of a coin. You can debase a coin by keeping...
Justinian did not justify the attack on the Gothic kingdom in Italy with the events of AD 476. In 535, when the (first) Gothic war began that was...
It was the emperor's prerogative that only his name and his portrait should appear on gold coins. Theoderic largely observed this imperial...
Sorry, I don't want to come across as know-it-all, however, this is my favourite period in late antique history. The Goths were divided in...
No, the size of the coin has nothing to do with debasement. The only relevant variables are the precious metal content and the nominal value.
This is, however, not what "debasing" is about. Debasing means reducing the precious metal content of a coin, while keeping (or even raising) its...
Hm, there was no Ostrogothic kingdom in "Eastern Rome". I guess you mean the western Roman Empire? However, the western Roman Empire had seized to...
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