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Message:: [QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 7815821, member: 10613"]When talking about these unofficial issues, specifically Siscian VLPP's, there is not much point in talking about specific groups of people, especially more Western people. These Siscian VLPP are typically found in the East and you can generally assume that they are struck near their find sites, as they usually would not travel far. As far as who struck them, Romans or perhaps Germanic people, we do not know. For example, 52 unofficial coins were found near Carnuntum, which included 37 VLPP imitations. [ATTACH=full]1343359[/ATTACH] Carnuntum is in Roman territory, but right on the border. So who struck these coins? Two articles about this suggest that this may have been the site of a "mint"(Matthias Pfisterer and Heinz Winter, “Eine Sammlung barbarisierter spätrömischer Münzen aus Carnuntum,” Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Numismatische Gesellschaft volume 41, no.2 (2001) :27-41 and volume 41, no. 3 (2001) : 47- 61.) The Bikić-Do Hoard, found in Serbia, had 10,590 coins mostly from Eastern mints; and included some unofficial coins, mostly Siscian copies, maybe produced locally and accidentally mixed in. [ATTACH=full]1343381[/ATTACH] map showing route from Carnuntum to Bikić-Do[/QUOTE]