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Message:: [QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7445644, member: 84905"]What I wrote above with regards to the Focas solidus applies here as well. The two coins are mind-blowing, but attributions to Germanic tribes are completely speculative guesses. In reality, nobody knows who made these coins. I have a large collection of migration age coins, which is my main speciality and I found that  attributions to "unknown Germanic tribes" are most of the time wishful thinking. The Leo Tremissis is particularly interesting. Large numbers of imitations of Leo Tremisses exist and for some reasons nobody ever succeeded in pinpointing the origin of these coins. Interestingly, there is also a large number of barbaric Leo Half-Siliquae, which are typically (and in my view wrongly) attributed to "unknown Germanic tribes". I think it is more likely that somewhere in the empire a makeshift mint was set up temporarily, which was tasked with producing coins to overcome an acute shortage and lagging qualified staff, they recruited illiterate goldsmith or other craftsmen to do the job. Its just a theory, but it is probably not worse then the theory of the "unknown Germanic tribes".[/QUOTE]