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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 7668815, member: 82549"]I have shown this mystery coin before. The dominant opinion is that is it barbarous, although it has also been suggested that it was struck as a donative to rally troops before a battle by a traveling, military mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it's barbarous, what were they copying? Since the Latin inscriptions are correct--"??? - ROMA" on the obverse, "PIETAS REIP" reverse--we can assume that whoever made it had some knowledge of Roman society and coinage. Why make a fantasy copy? It's very tiny: 11 mm, 0.8 g. Is it a later, Vandalic-era issue? I will probably never know this coin's complete story. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1317784[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 7668815, member: 82549"]I have shown this mystery coin before. The dominant opinion is that is it barbarous, although it has also been suggested that it was struck as a donative to rally troops before a battle by a traveling, military mint. If it's barbarous, what were they copying? Since the Latin inscriptions are correct--"??? - ROMA" on the obverse, "PIETAS REIP" reverse--we can assume that whoever made it had some knowledge of Roman society and coinage. Why make a fantasy copy? It's very tiny: 11 mm, 0.8 g. Is it a later, Vandalic-era issue? I will probably never know this coin's complete story. [ATTACH=full]1317784[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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