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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3110394, member: 83956&quot;]Migration period bracteates were not coins in any conventional sense. There is no debate. Here&#039;s how one bracteate specialist described them--note that she says they were stamped <i>like </i>coins, but they were designed primarily to be pendants:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;For the present case study, I have considered about</p><p>850 Scandinavian gold pendants of the Migration Period,</p><p>that is, of the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. The term &quot;brac-</p><p>teate&quot; from Latin bractea, &quot;thin plate,&quot;2 is a technical de-</p><p>scription referring to these disks, which have a diameter of</p><p>2 to 3 cm and show a mirror image of the same design on</p><p>the reverse when the disk is thin enough, since bracteates</p><p>were stamped on only one side, much like medieval bracte-</p><p>ate coins stamped with metal dies. From grave evidence,</p><p>they were apparently worn around the neck on a cord or</p><p>chain strung through a loop attached to the top edge of the</p><p>piece.3 The central circular field of a bracteate is stamped</p><p>with various motifs and often is surrounded by one or more</p><p>punched border zones. Although found primarily in Scandi-</p><p>navia, these objects also have been found as far away as</p><p>England, Hungary, and perhaps even Russia.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Wicker, Nancy L. “On the Trail of the Elusive Goldsmith: Tracing Individual Style and Workshop Characteristics in Migration Period Metalwork.” <i>Gesta</i>, vol. 33, no. 1, 1994, pp. 65–70. <i>JSTOR</i>, JSTOR, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/767136" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/767136" rel="nofollow">www.jstor.org/stable/767136</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]789178[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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