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<p>[QUOTE="IMP Shogun, post: 4891483, member: 114683"]It's a tough job to get at ten and without any proof of competence. I do find the stories around <a href="https://camws.org/sites/default/files/meeting2016/301.Stilicho.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://camws.org/sites/default/files/meeting2016/301.Stilicho.pdf" rel="nofollow">Stilicho and the rejection of Romanized-Germanic troops of this era fascinating</a>. What a disaster this was given the military situation at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>"<span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/secondary/burlat/6*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/secondary/burlat/6*.html" rel="nofollow">The fall of Stilicho was the signal for the Roman troops to massacre with brutal perfidy the families of the barbarian auxiliaries who were serving in Italy. The foreign soldiers, 30,000 of them, straightway marched to Noricum, joined the standard of Alaric, and urged him to descend on Italy.</a>" </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Knowing these coins were being desperately minted to save the empire [by an ill-equipped, xenophobic leader locked in a swamp-tower] is also really cool. It's also interesting to see from a numismatic perspective the change in composition of the monetary system where the frequency of gold coins increases quite a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find it to be a fascinating period, but there are many others as well!</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any Hunnic or Gothic/Barbarous coins of this time period they could share?</p><p><br /></p><p>Doing a quick search looks like this website has quite the history on this subject - All from this year! (I've learned not to add to older posts):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/flavius-honorius-395-423-ad.364383/#post-4697229" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/flavius-honorius-395-423-ad.364383/#post-4697229">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/flavius-honorius-395-423-ad.364383/#post-4697229</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gothic-silver-an-unexpected-pick-up.353909/#post-4021738" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gothic-silver-an-unexpected-pick-up.353909/#post-4021738">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gothic-silver-an-unexpected-pick-up.353909/#post-4021738</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And a great one on how to represent the event just following this, the sack of Rome in 410, a very good thread:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-most-ironic-lrb-or-how-to-represent-the-sack-of-rome-in-your-collection.353676/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-most-ironic-lrb-or-how-to-represent-the-sack-of-rome-in-your-collection.353676/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-most-ironic-lrb-or-how-to-represent-the-sack-of-rome-in-your-collection.353676/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IMP Shogun, post: 4891483, member: 114683"]It's a tough job to get at ten and without any proof of competence. I do find the stories around [URL='https://camws.org/sites/default/files/meeting2016/301.Stilicho.pdf']Stilicho and the rejection of Romanized-Germanic troops of this era fascinating[/URL]. What a disaster this was given the military situation at the time. "[COLOR=#000000][URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/secondary/burlat/6*.html']The fall of Stilicho was the signal for the Roman troops to massacre with brutal perfidy the families of the barbarian auxiliaries who were serving in Italy. The foreign soldiers, 30,000 of them, straightway marched to Noricum, joined the standard of Alaric, and urged him to descend on Italy.[/URL]" [/COLOR] Knowing these coins were being desperately minted to save the empire [by an ill-equipped, xenophobic leader locked in a swamp-tower] is also really cool. It's also interesting to see from a numismatic perspective the change in composition of the monetary system where the frequency of gold coins increases quite a bit. I find it to be a fascinating period, but there are many others as well! Does anyone have any Hunnic or Gothic/Barbarous coins of this time period they could share? Doing a quick search looks like this website has quite the history on this subject - All from this year! (I've learned not to add to older posts): [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/flavius-honorius-395-423-ad.364383/#post-4697229[/URL] [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gothic-silver-an-unexpected-pick-up.353909/#post-4021738[/URL] And a great one on how to represent the event just following this, the sack of Rome in 410, a very good thread: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-most-ironic-lrb-or-how-to-represent-the-sack-of-rome-in-your-collection.353676/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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