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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 5216020, member: 42034&quot;]Wow, what an amazing assortment.&nbsp; My favorite is the Regnum Francorum/ Merovingian coin.&nbsp; Like many others I&#039;ve developed a morbid fascination for the Late Roman Empire aka the Principate I think it&#039;s sometimes called.&nbsp; And the period of collapse and coalescense of nationalistic states immediately after that in the 6th century AD.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I only got 2 coins this whole year and one of them is in fact holed, gold and old.&nbsp; A little bit similar to your Merovingian this is a coin issued by the Germanic tribes, copying the Roman aureii of the time.&nbsp; It has a crude depiction of a Roman Emperor but the rev is the 8 legged Nordic warhorse: Sleipnir.&nbsp; Sleipnir was the fastest warhorse around; no doubt due to the 8 legs. It {he?} was exclusively ridden by Odin: the Norse god {except on one occasion when he was loaned out for a trip to the underworld}.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1215840[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also I should mention that your Honorius tremissis is beautiful.&nbsp; As you know soldii of Honorius are not rare but I&#039;ve never seen a tremissis of him before: particularly in that grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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