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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4376999, member: 84744&quot;]Changing my description of this coin to &quot;probably Sarmatian.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1104088[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I love that eight-legged horse, [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER]!&nbsp; The portrait style looks very tetrarchic which suggests a very late 3rd century or early 4th century origin.&nbsp; Borrowed from an argenteus?</p><p><br /></p><p>A related coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1104092[/ATTACH] </p><p>And here are my notes on it.&nbsp; I&#039;d be grateful for any corrections, [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER]!&nbsp; In particular perhaps I&#039;m overemphasizing the Sarmatian possibility here and should rather say Chernyakhov or Sarmatian-Gothic?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Imitation of Antoninus Pius denarius. The style is similar to imitations found in relatively large numbers in the region of modern Ukraine and Moldova, which in the 2nd century and later corresponds to territory held by the Sarmatian tribe known as the Roxolani (closely related to the Alans, though they may have had an additional Slavic component to their confederation). Archaeologically, the coins are associated with the Chernyakhov culture, thought to be comprised of some mix of Sarmatian, Geto-Dacian, Gothic and Slavic populations.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Anokhin indicates that imitations of Antonine emperors were produced until the 3rd century at least, demonstrated by (for example) a reverse die match between an imitation aureus of Maximian, and an imitation denarius of Antoninus Pius. The official seed coins may have come from accumulations of non-Roman peoples elsewhere, e.g. in Dacia, and the paucity of examples from the reign of Septimius Severus and rarity of imitations of later emperors may indicate an awareness of the silver content of the originals.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Roxolani and others in the area were conquered by the Huns in the mid 4th century.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I had previously thought of my Taman coin as my &quot;Gothic&quot; coin, and my A. Pi imitation as my &quot;Sarmatian&quot; coin.&nbsp; But it seems I may have this exactly backwards... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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