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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 3841262, member: 84905"]I agree with Ken. In this case the most likely explanation is that the coin was produced by an official Roman mint. The coin reached the Barbaricum (be it as loot or payment of some sort), where it was used as pendant.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the case of stolen dies is real and documented in the literature (look for articles by Aleksandr Bursche and Adam Degler). During the raid of Alexandria Troas (I think in about 262 AD) the Goths plundered the mint and took the dies used for provincial copper coins. Back home, the Goths used them to strike gold coins, which chieftains distributed to their retainers, who, in turn, would wear them much like modern military medals. When these stolen dies wore out they recut them several times to create increasingly barbaric images.</p><p><br /></p><p>The example below is from my collection of these Gothic gold coins. The dies are official, but the lettering on the obverse has been recut by illiterate barbarian die sinkers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019536[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 3841262, member: 84905"]I agree with Ken. In this case the most likely explanation is that the coin was produced by an official Roman mint. The coin reached the Barbaricum (be it as loot or payment of some sort), where it was used as pendant. However, the case of stolen dies is real and documented in the literature (look for articles by Aleksandr Bursche and Adam Degler). During the raid of Alexandria Troas (I think in about 262 AD) the Goths plundered the mint and took the dies used for provincial copper coins. Back home, the Goths used them to strike gold coins, which chieftains distributed to their retainers, who, in turn, would wear them much like modern military medals. When these stolen dies wore out they recut them several times to create increasingly barbaric images. The example below is from my collection of these Gothic gold coins. The dies are official, but the lettering on the obverse has been recut by illiterate barbarian die sinkers. [ATTACH=full]1019536[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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