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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7961102, member: 56653"]I think that to begin a search for an answer to your questions, we'd have to ask for how long did these AEs from the 4th century circulate in Britain once the access to new Imperial coinage had been all but cut off after 410 (and the 5th century new coinage was meager as well in the West). I know of 4th century siliquae that were introduced (or kept) in circulation clipped for instance. In other places the imitations of some AE late Roman types from the 4th century became a regular coinage in the 5th century -- the maiorinae with military busts of the 380s in Cherson or the maiorinae of Magnus Maximus in pre-Visigothic Barcino etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is the question of the type copied -- I see a Crispus legend on one specimen, probably 'inspired' by this type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380073[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>or maybe this (or similar) from London:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380075[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But these are coins from 318-320, could they have survived long enough to inspire a late 7th century precious metal coinage? I think it would have been more likely if the trymsa were copied from late Roman gold, but I don't know very much about the gold issues of the period and I don't think I have ever seen a Crispus gold issue with a helmeted bust, but have seen a gold radiate of Constantine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7961102, member: 56653"]I think that to begin a search for an answer to your questions, we'd have to ask for how long did these AEs from the 4th century circulate in Britain once the access to new Imperial coinage had been all but cut off after 410 (and the 5th century new coinage was meager as well in the West). I know of 4th century siliquae that were introduced (or kept) in circulation clipped for instance. In other places the imitations of some AE late Roman types from the 4th century became a regular coinage in the 5th century -- the maiorinae with military busts of the 380s in Cherson or the maiorinae of Magnus Maximus in pre-Visigothic Barcino etc. Then there is the question of the type copied -- I see a Crispus legend on one specimen, probably 'inspired' by this type: [ATTACH=full]1380073[/ATTACH] or maybe this (or similar) from London: [ATTACH=full]1380075[/ATTACH] But these are coins from 318-320, could they have survived long enough to inspire a late 7th century precious metal coinage? I think it would have been more likely if the trymsa were copied from late Roman gold, but I don't know very much about the gold issues of the period and I don't think I have ever seen a Crispus gold issue with a helmeted bust, but have seen a gold radiate of Constantine.[/QUOTE]
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