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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 3839946, member: 84905"]Actually, I had another close look at the coin. I think the barbaric look may just be the result of the extensive smoothing and "restoration". While it is true that the Goths used coin dies, which they capture during a raid of Alexandria Troas (I have an example in my collection), this is more likely to be an isolated event, even though the dies were used extensively for a long time. There is so far no evidence, that this happened again. </p><p>So I think what happened is that an official aureus came to the Barbaricum. There a loop was attached to be used as pendant. The loop was later removed or lost and the coin was "restored" to the present state, without the scratch marks, but with some barbaric appearance because of some recutting of the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 3839946, member: 84905"]Actually, I had another close look at the coin. I think the barbaric look may just be the result of the extensive smoothing and "restoration". While it is true that the Goths used coin dies, which they capture during a raid of Alexandria Troas (I have an example in my collection), this is more likely to be an isolated event, even though the dies were used extensively for a long time. There is so far no evidence, that this happened again. So I think what happened is that an official aureus came to the Barbaricum. There a loop was attached to be used as pendant. The loop was later removed or lost and the coin was "restored" to the present state, without the scratch marks, but with some barbaric appearance because of some recutting of the reverse.[/QUOTE]
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