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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3195794, member: 74834&quot;]Inspired by the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/acquired-the-white-whale.323375/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/acquired-the-white-whale.323375/">White Whale</a> featured thread and by its <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/acquired-the-white-whale.323375/page-2#post-3188017" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/acquired-the-white-whale.323375/page-2#post-3188017">mention of the Gepids</a>, I have been looking at my Great Migration coins, a collection I started years ago, but was diverted from - by other numismatical green pastures. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have Odoacer or Ravenna coins, but here are four Gepid coins, that according to the <a href="https://www.academia.edu/20402734/The_Sirmium_group_about_the_so-called_Gepids_siliquae_With_a_specific_catalogue" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/20402734/The_Sirmium_group_about_the_so-called_Gepids_siliquae_With_a_specific_catalogue" rel="nofollow">article by Alain Gennari</a> (2016, on Academia.edu) should be considered Ostrogoth. These are sometimes called half siliquas, and they date from about 508-528. </p><p><br /></p><p>As you see, they are often very brittle and in fact a little piece broke off when handling them - that was one of the reasons I was put off collecting these types: they are badly made, very frail, often worn (well, not these tiny silver coins) and very small. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825882[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825883[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As you see, all carry the name of Anastasius, the emperor in the East. They were minted in Sirmium, now Srem, not far from Belgrade. They weigh between 0.4 and 0.8 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>And then there were the Vandals. A warlike people, they left their trail through all of Europe in a few turbulent centuries before all but disappearing. Possibly they came from southern Scandinavia, but they were in what&#039;s now Poland in the second century AD and made a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals#/media/File:Vandals_Migration_pt.gif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals#/media/File:Vandals_Migration_pt.gif" rel="nofollow">Grand Tour through Europe</a>, ending up in Carthago in 435 AD. </p><p><br /></p><p>99 years later, they were crushed by the Byzantine general Belisarius. What was left of their soldiers was incorporated into the Byzantine army. As a people, they disappeared. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825888[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Vandals. Gaiseric or Huneric, about 470-480. Pseudo imperial coinage. AR siliqua in the name of Honorius. Pseudo-Ravenna = Carthago. Obv. Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to the right. DN HONORIVS P F AVG (not much left on this coin). Rev. Rome, holding a spear, sitting to the left on a cuirass, with Victoria on a globe. VRBS ROIIA. In exergue: RVPS. 14.5 mm, 1.7 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825890[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Vandals, king Gunthamund (484-496). AE nummus, Carthage. 10 mm, 0.79 gr. Obv: Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Gunthamund right. Rev: cross within wreath. 0.79 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was taken aback when this coin came in, so small, but so ugly and menacing. Doesn&#039;t he look like a vandal caught in the act?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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