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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8109589, member: 84905&quot;]Great coin from a very important location.</p><p><br /></p><p>The oberse legend is misspelled for <b>VVICCO FIT</b> = (Quentia) Vicus fitur = produced in the Vicus (=settlement) (at the Quentia river.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse legend is <b>ANCCO MONET</b> meaning Ancco monetarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>This period, i.e. the early 7th century is the depth of the dark ages. Despite the brave attempts by Cassiodorus, who died sometime in the 580s, the light of learning and preservation of knowledge was almost extinguished by the time your coin was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is probably an exaggeration, but I picture this period a bit like a post-apocalyptic world, where the Latin on coins like yours was the only exposure that people had to writing and for the vast majority of them these letters were just mysterious unintelligible symbols of a distant past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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