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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clonecommanderavgvsvs, post: 6320562, member: 106975&quot;][ATTACH=full]1250473[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1250474[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1250468[/ATTACH] I have acquired this lovely 10 nummii of Theodoric from vcoins. Being of the goth subculture I feel quite attracted to these guys. I shall use the seller photo since it hasn’t arrived yet but I’d like to do a little write up for this lovely coin. Theodoric was the king of the ostrogoths from 475-526, king of Italy from 493 to 526 and last but not least king of the Visigoths from 511-526. Spending part of his life as a captive of Rome, Theodoric became a commander of the Roman army sent by emperor Zeno to retake Italy from the Germanic king of Italy, Odoacer. He had made no waste in defeating Odoacer and in 493, while at a feast to celebrate a treaty between them, he murdered the defeated king and all of his most loyal followers. Now in charge of Italy, Theodoric expanded his sphere of influence by marrying the sister of the Frankish king Clovis I and sending his sister off to marry the king of the vandals, Thrasamund. He also had major victories over the gepids in the East and made a gothic superstate by bringing the visigoths under his control in 511. He died in 526 of dysentery, bringing an end to a legendary king. Theodoric was renowned as an excellent ruler and general and became one of the many heros of the Germanic sagas. Mentioned in the Rök runestone of Sweden, the Poetic Edda and in medieval German folktales, under the name Dietrich von Bern.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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