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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Snopes, post: 1726341, member: 54228&quot;]Medoraman -</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice to see a kindred spirit.&nbsp; I too have lots of ugly little coins and an extensive reference library.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never calculated the total cost of my coins and my references, but I wouldn&#039;t be at all surprised if I&#039;ve spent more on my reference library than my coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One volume in my reference library is Vico, Cores, and Cores, <u>Corpus Nummorum Visigothum</u> (Madrid 2006).&nbsp;&nbsp; As you may know, there is considerable dispute about whether the small bronzes found near Emerita (many bearing an “SP” monogram) are Visigothic issues.&nbsp; Crusafont attributes these to the Visigoths, but the authors of <u>Corpus Nummorum Visigothum</u> do not include them as Visigothic coinage.&nbsp; Instead, the authors state (in an awkward English translation at pp. 115-116) that Crusafont recognizes the uncertainty of the attribution to the Visigoths and that &quot;&#039;it can be a matter of coins of a marginal nature, that is, issues of mining, larges faces [sic], local or ecclesiastic coinage.&#039; We must add to all of this that they could also be coins issued by the noble oligarchies of the Guadalquivir valley or simple Byzantine coins struck in Hispania, which is what seems to be the most likely explanation.&nbsp; We are not specialists in Byzantine, Vandalic, or late-Roman coins, and so we cannot determine with absolute certainty the identity of these coins but we can say that we personally feel they are not of Visigoth origin.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I know I&#039;ve seen another source that argues that the Emerita bronzes were likely local issues, but I couldn&#039;t find it and gave up after fifteen minutes of looking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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