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Message:: [QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2677145, member: 83956"]That's an interesting barb, Glenn. Perhaps it's stating the obvious to guess that the coin really isn't from Siscia, but the SIS is part of the copying. It's seems S and I were the letters of choice for the barbarian die engravers, according to my barb below. So SIS might be a lot easier that, say, CONSE! On a related note, if you were to tell me that you had a LRB barbaric imitation, I'd lay 10 to 1 odds that it would be of the "two victories inscribing a VOT PR shield" variety. I'm no barb specialist, but anecdotally it seems that I see several times as many barbs of this type as of any other. I wonder why this type was so often imitated? If I were going to imitate a coin, I'd imitate a campgate. Those straight criss-crossed lines would be a lot easier for me to carve than the curves of shield and victories. One might say the reverse is unobjectionable to a "barbaric" or non-Roman population, but we also have barbaric "soldier spearing barbarian" coins, in a bit of numismatic irony. I wonder what made this "two victories inscribing a VOT PR shield"  so attractive to barbaric imitators.[ATTACH=full]597445[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]