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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8153216, member: 84905&quot;]I know, the above imitations get regularly attributed to the Vandals, but I think it is unlikely that they were made under the authority of a Vandalic king or other authority of the Vandalic kingdom. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it was Grierson and Blackburn who pointed out that these are essentially &quot;anonymous African imitations&quot; (I think often from Libya), that could have been made by anyone and anywhere in northern Africa. Grierson and Blackburn (MEC I) don&#039;t include them in the Vandalic series, which I think is the correct thing to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>These imitations basically don&#039;t fit anywhere into the rather well organised royal and municipal Vandalic series, which consisted of a whole range of silver and bronze denominations down to single nummus pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a sense they don&#039;t even fit in with the pseudo-imperial series from AD 440 to c. AD 485, which consisted of very consistent imitations of Siliquae and 1/2-Siliquae from Ravenna.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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