Hi, this is a very nice specimen and your research is spot on. This coin was made in the first half of 4th century not as a forgery, but as a...
I am in contact with Adam Degler, the author of the article on the aureus imitation with Germanic runes. I have to revise my earlier opinion. I...
I think Valens is right, the last ember of Gothic political identity died in the 15th century at the very latest with the principality of Gothia....
Very interesting. I'm German though and don't understand Polish unfortunately. Best Dirk
To see large catalogs of gold and silver imitations from Ukraine search for: barbarous-imitations.narod.ru This site shows some 400 gold...
... to add to runic writing and expert interpretations. I collect also some ancient objects, and I have what seemed to be a belt-end with runic...
... to add to the case of "accidental" runic imitations. There is an article, in which the author describes an imitation, which seems to show an...
The silver (billon) imitations exist in large quantities. Not much is known about them. I noticed that find spots are often very far in the east,...
Thanks for the link; very interesting. Despite the author's best effort and the opinion of well known experts like Düwel and Nedoma, I'm afraid...
The Gothic warriors who served with the Roman army not only received gold coins, but also gold bracelets as donativum. These bracelets were often...
I have not seen a single Ukrainian (presumably Gothic) imitations with two holes. Again, no attribution is possible. By the time this coin was...
As I said, I have more than 20 imitative gold coins from the area of modern Ukraine, which I think, can with some justification, be attributed to...
The coin is an official Roman issue of the 4th century. The Visigoths did not settle permanently in Spain before the early 6th century. The coin...
While the Taman imitations cannot be the product of Goths the imitative gold coins, found regularly and in surprisingly large numbers in modern...
By the early 4th century, the Goths seemed to have established themselves as the dominant force within the polyethnic Chernyakhov-culture....
... also the Denarii shown above cannot be attributed to "the Goths". Instead, they were produced within the wide expanse of the...
I'm the author of the Celator article on the Taman imitations. I didn't know it was available online. I have some 25 Taman imitations....
The Odovacar-Nummus at the start of this thread is fantastic. Many of the late Roman nummi attributed to Odovacar are actually common African...
Sorry, I just repost the two coins. Somebody on the forum suggested that I better use full image instead of thumbnail images. I really like the...
Very nice, especially the portrait. Here is my second favorite from my collection. Valentinian II, also from Alexandria, but somewhat tired dies.
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