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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 6534595, member: 96898&quot;]Wonderful coins and write-up, [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] ! As you know, these are right down my alley of interest.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As stated above, I think that very much depends on where you live. Growing up at the German-Danish border, there were three boys names Knut in my highschool year. We had to distinguish them by calling them &quot;small Knut&quot; (he was small), &quot;football Knut&quot; (he was a gifted athlete), and &quot;brown Knut&quot; (he had brown hair). My own real name is equally regional – when I introduce myself to Americans, they typically answer with &quot;what?&quot;, followed by series of references to the TV series <i>Vikings</i> and a famous tennis player.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two friends of mine just got a son and named him Arkadiusz. The mother is Polish. I think that&#039;s as beautiful a name as it gets.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Germany, the &quot;medieval&quot; baby names Friedrich/Frieda, Karl/Karla, Arthur, Oskar, Henrike/Heinrich, Mathilda, Emma and Otto currently experience a sort of renaissance. Two other friends even named their daughter Theophanu...</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to Roman emperors, Anton, Markus, Maximian, Maximilian, and Konstantin never fell out of fashion, I guess. The names Emil and Emilia, deriving from Aemilius/a, are also popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a Cnut, but here is another, later Conrad:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1261530[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Kingdom of Sicily, under Konrad IV of Hohenstaufen, AE denaro, 1250–1254 AD, struck at Messina. Obv: + CON[R]ADVS, cross with two diamonds in fields. Rev: + IER[L E]T SICI, RX with omega-stroke above. 15mm, 0.68g. Ref: Spahr 155, MEC XIV, p. 133, no. 3.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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