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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7874866, member: 84905&quot;]Below is an imitation, which I own and which I like to interpret as the earliest depiction of Sleipnir, Odin&#039;s eight-legged horse (since the coin is probably an East Germanic (Gothic) product, Odin would have been called Wodans)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357155[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Argenteus-Imitation (?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse may be based on an Argenteus of the Tetrachy (perhaps Maximianus or Constantius Chlorus).</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse shows an eight-legged horse, which may be a representation of Odin/Wodan&#039;s horse Sleipnir, which is known only from much later Nordic sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>IIHEHEH - HE (inverse)HH // HEHN - HHE (inverse)H</p><p><br /></p><p>Date: Fourth century</p><p><br /></p><p>Found in Chernovitskaya Oblast (Ukraine) (Chernyakhovskaya culture)</p><p><br /></p><p>Metal: Silver</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight 3.46 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter: 18mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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