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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3932546, member: 97383"]I don't know of any serious, experienced dealer or auction house that is attributing barbarous looking coins to "Gepids / Gepidae" to enhance their saleability, although you might see this on institutions like eBay. The British Museum states: "<b>The Coinage of Odovacar and the Ostrogoths</b>, The emissions of Odovacar were minted in Milan, Rome and Ravenna, respecting the authority of Zeno (474-491), the reigning emperor in Constantinople, and the deposed Roman emperor Julius Nepos who remained in exile in Dalmatia from 475 until his death in 480. They were produced in three metals: gold, silver and <u>copper</u>." The same can be said of Theoderic. These barbarian emperors struck coinage because they had control of the Western Empire, they had great wealth, and a need for circulating money to conduct daily commerce. The Visigoths and Vandals also struck coinage in the name of Western emperors although they later began using images and inscriptions of their own monarchs. When Justinian I reconquered the Western Empire briefly, barbarian coinage became less prevalent. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1036419[/ATTACH] </p><p>Barbarian solidus of Zeno</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1036420[/ATTACH] </p><p>Barbarian solidus of Anastasius[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3932546, member: 97383"]I don't know of any serious, experienced dealer or auction house that is attributing barbarous looking coins to "Gepids / Gepidae" to enhance their saleability, although you might see this on institutions like eBay. The British Museum states: "[B]The Coinage of Odovacar and the Ostrogoths[/B], The emissions of Odovacar were minted in Milan, Rome and Ravenna, respecting the authority of Zeno (474-491), the reigning emperor in Constantinople, and the deposed Roman emperor Julius Nepos who remained in exile in Dalmatia from 475 until his death in 480. They were produced in three metals: gold, silver and [U]copper[/U]." The same can be said of Theoderic. These barbarian emperors struck coinage because they had control of the Western Empire, they had great wealth, and a need for circulating money to conduct daily commerce. The Visigoths and Vandals also struck coinage in the name of Western emperors although they later began using images and inscriptions of their own monarchs. When Justinian I reconquered the Western Empire briefly, barbarian coinage became less prevalent. [ATTACH=full]1036419[/ATTACH] Barbarian solidus of Zeno [ATTACH=full]1036420[/ATTACH] Barbarian solidus of Anastasius[/QUOTE]
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