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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eyestrain, post: 1150549, member: 24213&quot;]This one falls firmly in the middle and you&#039;ll probably just have to accept that there will never be a definitive answer. At the height of the crisis of the third century and the secessionist empires, coinage was pretty shabby across the board. The best barbarian imitatives looked better than the work of the official mints, and the worst of the official mints looked crudely barbarous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d lean towards official, but that&#039;s how I always lean unless there&#039;s a clear indication that the coin in barbarous (cartoon portrait, illiterate legend, crazy uneven font, etc.) It&#039;s those obvious tags that make the barbarian imitations so appealing to me. Anything reasonably competent I&#039;ll allow as &quot;official&quot; and, when necessary, write it off as a rushed day at the mint or the work of a newbie die cutter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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