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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3513865, member: 80783"]Update:</p><p>A double die matching specimen (the one pictured earlier in this thread that is neither plated nor holed nor looped) to my OP coin is now offered as lot 819 in Leu Auction 4 with the description <i>„This probably is a free-hand imitation rather than a copy of an actual prototype, as the obverse is decidedly post-reform in style, whereas the reverse was only struck pre-reform for either Diocletian or Maximian“</i>.</p><p>The catalogue´s introduction to the „Aurum Barbarorum Collection“ (which includes 50 such imitations) states: </p><p><i>„As the supply of Roman gold to the Barbaricum diminished when the empire was stabilized under Claudius II and Aurelian, Gothic goldsmiths began to develop local</i></p><p><i>imitations: this marks the Dawn of Germanic Coinage. (...) Modern archeology has shown that aurei north of the Danube in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries were mostly worn by chieftains and leaders of warrior groups in the form of pendants as badges of honor. There is indication, therefore, that the earliest independent Germanic coinage did not come about through the monetarization of the broader society at the time but was initiated by the demand for the popular Roman or</i></p><p><i>Romanized status and honor symbols by local elites. Standardization of the weights was superfluous as the coins were usually perforated in order to be worn around the neck – a practice that was later replaced by the application of suspension loops“.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I had not realized that these holed gothic imitations are the earliest coins of Germanic production <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3513865, member: 80783"]Update: A double die matching specimen (the one pictured earlier in this thread that is neither plated nor holed nor looped) to my OP coin is now offered as lot 819 in Leu Auction 4 with the description [I]„This probably is a free-hand imitation rather than a copy of an actual prototype, as the obverse is decidedly post-reform in style, whereas the reverse was only struck pre-reform for either Diocletian or Maximian“[/I]. The catalogue´s introduction to the „Aurum Barbarorum Collection“ (which includes 50 such imitations) states: [I]„As the supply of Roman gold to the Barbaricum diminished when the empire was stabilized under Claudius II and Aurelian, Gothic goldsmiths began to develop local imitations: this marks the Dawn of Germanic Coinage. (...) Modern archeology has shown that aurei north of the Danube in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries were mostly worn by chieftains and leaders of warrior groups in the form of pendants as badges of honor. There is indication, therefore, that the earliest independent Germanic coinage did not come about through the monetarization of the broader society at the time but was initiated by the demand for the popular Roman or Romanized status and honor symbols by local elites. Standardization of the weights was superfluous as the coins were usually perforated in order to be worn around the neck – a practice that was later replaced by the application of suspension loops“. [/I] I had not realized that these holed gothic imitations are the earliest coins of Germanic production :-)[/QUOTE]
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