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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2362244, member: 74222&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why the heck did the Goths struck bronze coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have read and thought that after the Western Roman Empire collapsed a new society emerged out of germanian tribal hemisphere. They did not have formal laws as the (Eastern) Roman Empire as they relied on family kinships, and NOR did they have monetary system. It was first during the High Middle Ages around 1000CE or so that Western Europe saw monetary system in bronze in the same manner as Byzantine Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did the Goths have bronze coins that circulated like the contemporary Byzantine Follis? Or did the Goths just struck them for fun?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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