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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8106894, member: 84905&quot;]I think it is important to realize that imitations were made when official coins were not available in sufficient numbers. A notable exception are the Burgundian coins which were based on the official coinage of Ostrogothic Italy. Gallic imitations of the 5th century (which included Visigothic and Frankish jurisdictions, but also various provincial Roman centeres) were purely imitative coins, often made to lower standards of purity and weight.&nbsp; To the people of that time, most of these coins were second choice. Indeed, the Burgundian law code explicitly prohibitit the circulation of Visigothic coins struck under King Euric.</p><p><br /></p><p>Childeric&#039;s grave goods are an interesting point in case. Chlodevig (Clovis as he is called in French and English) was careful to select grave goods for his father&#039;s burial that demonstrated his status as a very successful and powerful Germanic war lord. Childeric&#039;s wife had been a Thuringian princess. Parts of the burial custom, like the horse burials have parallels in Thuringian traditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the grave goods were also meant to represent Childeric&#039;s status as a Roman official. Childeric had died a pagan, but Gallic bishops and Romano-Gallic nobles will likely have attended his burial. The large set of carefully selected Roman coins belonged to this part of the burial. Gallic-Visigothic Imitations would have been out of place in this context. And of course, the Franks only controlled the north-eastern parts of Gaul at the time and almost certainly did not yet produce coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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