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<p>[QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 3661060, member: 89266"]I have information coming from a Portuguese friend of mine who is numismatist and amateur detectorist. There have been some recent findings in Portugal, especially in the north-central region of the country, of some canisters filled with V century copper coins, mostly the typical FEL TEMP REPARATIO and GLORIA EXERCITVM. Some finds contained over 2000 coins. However, in the midst of them they found several barbaric imitations, and some semis and asses. As it is well known that there was a shortage of coins during this period in the Iberian Peninsula, especially coinciding with the influx of barbarian tribes from the North (Suevi and Visigoths), it is believed that the supply of coins minted in the Galia and Germania workshops has declined, or did not reach the place. Thus, the use of coins that should have long been demonized, and the acceptance of barbaric imitations, is often used. I own some coins myself from some of these hoards. Interestingly, an Isis Festival coin was even found next to the common coins of the Valens reign. This finding in question makes us wonder whether these currencies were just votive tokens, as already considered, or if they had a real monetary role in the period. But that is already a subject for another topic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 3661060, member: 89266"]I have information coming from a Portuguese friend of mine who is numismatist and amateur detectorist. There have been some recent findings in Portugal, especially in the north-central region of the country, of some canisters filled with V century copper coins, mostly the typical FEL TEMP REPARATIO and GLORIA EXERCITVM. Some finds contained over 2000 coins. However, in the midst of them they found several barbaric imitations, and some semis and asses. As it is well known that there was a shortage of coins during this period in the Iberian Peninsula, especially coinciding with the influx of barbarian tribes from the North (Suevi and Visigoths), it is believed that the supply of coins minted in the Galia and Germania workshops has declined, or did not reach the place. Thus, the use of coins that should have long been demonized, and the acceptance of barbaric imitations, is often used. I own some coins myself from some of these hoards. Interestingly, an Isis Festival coin was even found next to the common coins of the Valens reign. This finding in question makes us wonder whether these currencies were just votive tokens, as already considered, or if they had a real monetary role in the period. But that is already a subject for another topic.[/QUOTE]
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