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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 4365228, member: 84905&quot;]There are currently two Taman imitations for sale:</p><p>CNG</p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=3831&amp;lot=573" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=3831&amp;lot=573" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=3831&amp;lot=573</a></p><p>Heritage</p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=3801&amp;lot=32180" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=3801&amp;lot=32180" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=3801&amp;lot=32180</a></p><p><br /></p><p>CNG attributes the coin to &quot;Goths&quot;. Heritage writes &quot;Early Goths&quot;. Heritage cites my 2006 Celator article on the series as reference, plus the Soviet numismatist L. Kazamanova, 1961. I suspect that they have not consulted Kazamanova&#039;s article in Russian, but copied the reference from my article.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, neither CNG nor Heritage seem to have read my article either. If they had, they knew that these coins were not minted by &quot;Goths&quot; or &quot;Early Goths&quot;. In Russian numismatics, these coins are frequently called &quot;Taman imiations&quot; &quot;coins of the unknown people&quot; and &quot;Imitations of the type with walking Mars&quot;. These descriptions are admittedly not so exiting, but they are accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Taman Peninsula (East of the Crimean Peninsula), where these coins were produced in the 3rd and 4th century was not settled by Goths before the late 5th/6th century. Hence, who ever made these coins, were certainly no Goths.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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