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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7547048, member: 84905"]Hi, your Gepidic fragment is numismatically very significant and extremely rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote an article on these coins, which you can access here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40929261/The_Sirmium_Group_an_overview" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/40929261/The_Sirmium_Group_an_overview" rel="nofollow">(99+) (PDF) The "Sirmium Group" - an overview | Dirk Faltin - Academia.edu</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I classified your type as Group Q5b. I would be very grateful, if you could provide a proper picture and measurements. And of course any information on the find spot would be invaluable. Your coin may be from the same dies as coin 5b2 (p. 161) in my article, which curiously was found in a grave in what is now Belgium, which is far away from its place of manufacture in what is now Serbia.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, these coins are a bit of a mystery. They are usually attributed to the Gepids, but most of them were probably minted when Sirmium was under Gothic control. Most puzzling are those "special series" to which your coin belongs. They were minted in the name of Anastasius, but may have been made some 50 or more years after his death.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is quite surprising, that small silver coins were still useful in this region, far away from the imperial centers. Its economy seemed to have developed in its own way.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, the Gepids were Christians, most likely of the Arian denomination. The coins attest to their Christianity. In my article I also mention an inscription on a roof tile from AD 582, which reads: "Christ, our Lord, help our town halt the Avars. Protect the Roman Empire and he who has written this." It may be, that the particularly Christian imagery of the last issues of Gepidic coins falls into this period of turmoil and decline.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best</p><p>Dirk[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7547048, member: 84905"]Hi, your Gepidic fragment is numismatically very significant and extremely rare. I wrote an article on these coins, which you can access here: [URL='https://www.academia.edu/40929261/The_Sirmium_Group_an_overview'](99+) (PDF) The "Sirmium Group" - an overview | Dirk Faltin - Academia.edu[/URL] I classified your type as Group Q5b. I would be very grateful, if you could provide a proper picture and measurements. And of course any information on the find spot would be invaluable. Your coin may be from the same dies as coin 5b2 (p. 161) in my article, which curiously was found in a grave in what is now Belgium, which is far away from its place of manufacture in what is now Serbia. In general, these coins are a bit of a mystery. They are usually attributed to the Gepids, but most of them were probably minted when Sirmium was under Gothic control. Most puzzling are those "special series" to which your coin belongs. They were minted in the name of Anastasius, but may have been made some 50 or more years after his death. It is quite surprising, that small silver coins were still useful in this region, far away from the imperial centers. Its economy seemed to have developed in its own way. And yes, the Gepids were Christians, most likely of the Arian denomination. The coins attest to their Christianity. In my article I also mention an inscription on a roof tile from AD 582, which reads: "Christ, our Lord, help our town halt the Avars. Protect the Roman Empire and he who has written this." It may be, that the particularly Christian imagery of the last issues of Gepidic coins falls into this period of turmoil and decline. Best Dirk[/QUOTE]
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