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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7547181, member: 84905"]This is a very nice coin, but the attribution is no longer accepted. No coins were ever minted for Mathasunta. Just as no coins were ever minted for her monther Amalasuntha despite the many attributions in auction catalogs. The Ostrogoths did not accept the open rule of women. A Gothic king had to be a man and a military leader.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the coin was not even minted in Ostrogothic Italy, but in Africa. Its size and fabric is completely at odds with Ostrogothic silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The monogram is that of Justinian. The coin was minted at Carthage in the 530s or 540s after the fall of the Vandalic kingdom. It is hence, a regular East Roman/Byzantine Half-Siliqua.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7547181, member: 84905"]This is a very nice coin, but the attribution is no longer accepted. No coins were ever minted for Mathasunta. Just as no coins were ever minted for her monther Amalasuntha despite the many attributions in auction catalogs. The Ostrogoths did not accept the open rule of women. A Gothic king had to be a man and a military leader. In fact, the coin was not even minted in Ostrogothic Italy, but in Africa. Its size and fabric is completely at odds with Ostrogothic silver coins. The monogram is that of Justinian. The coin was minted at Carthage in the 530s or 540s after the fall of the Vandalic kingdom. It is hence, a regular East Roman/Byzantine Half-Siliqua.[/QUOTE]
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