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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7576232, member: 75482"]One of the most common prototypes among the barbarous radiates is the Divus Claudius altar issue. One of the primary variants shows a quadrapartite altar with a pellet each angle (image courtesy CNG).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1306056[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>C.H.V. Sutherland (<i>Coinage and Currency in Roman Britain,</i> p. 151) explains how with the imitations, the square outline of the altar first becomes a circle and then a border of dots. Finally, the central cross separates from the circle with decoration at the end of the arms. His plate XI, 21 is an example from the Richborough hoard, similar to yours but with a single pellet rather than a triplet at the end of each arm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Size-wise, the module of the barbarous radiates ranges from that of the prototypes down to tiny minimi.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sutherland is very useful for working out prototypes for the barbarous radiates. One caveat, however. It was published in 1937 when most still believed the barbarous radiates to be a 'dark ages' coinage. That notion was abandoned, of course, in the 1960s.</p><p><br /></p><p>[edit] Interestingly, your coin apparently preserves the "O" of DIVO near the back of the radiate crown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7576232, member: 75482"]One of the most common prototypes among the barbarous radiates is the Divus Claudius altar issue. One of the primary variants shows a quadrapartite altar with a pellet each angle (image courtesy CNG). [ATTACH=full]1306056[/ATTACH] C.H.V. Sutherland ([I]Coinage and Currency in Roman Britain,[/I] p. 151) explains how with the imitations, the square outline of the altar first becomes a circle and then a border of dots. Finally, the central cross separates from the circle with decoration at the end of the arms. His plate XI, 21 is an example from the Richborough hoard, similar to yours but with a single pellet rather than a triplet at the end of each arm. Size-wise, the module of the barbarous radiates ranges from that of the prototypes down to tiny minimi. Sutherland is very useful for working out prototypes for the barbarous radiates. One caveat, however. It was published in 1937 when most still believed the barbarous radiates to be a 'dark ages' coinage. That notion was abandoned, of course, in the 1960s. [edit] Interestingly, your coin apparently preserves the "O" of DIVO near the back of the radiate crown.[/QUOTE]
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