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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2018812, member: 44210&quot;]The recent talk and sharing of Vandal coins prompted me to actively search for another Vandal coin to add to my collection, specifically one I can attribute to them with certainty. Fortunately I was able to find this very nice example.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Hilderic_zps7a113ef3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This may look like an anonymous unofficial imitative (&quot;barbarous&quot;), but the style of it pretty much matches (at least in my view) that of known cross-within-wreath coins of Hilderic, such as those below (first is from Tantalus and second is from Coinproject):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/hild_zps1c2e8af6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/hild2_zps9245e74e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On closer inspection of my coin, I also believe I see the letters IL from the obverse legend HILD REX.</p><p><br /></p><p>My coin&#039;s attribution:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Hilderic</u>, Vandal Kingdom</b></p><p>AE nummus</p><p><u>Obv</u>: HILD [REX], pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right</p><p><u>Rev</u>: Cross potent within wreath, ring above</p><p><u>Mint</u>: Carthage (struck 523-530 AD)</p><p><u>Ref</u>: BMC Vandals 9</p><p><u>Size</u>: 9 mm wide</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/KingdomVandals.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hilderic ruled as King of the Vandals and Alans, who ruled a post-Roman Germanic realm in North Africa, with the capital at Carthage. He was the grandson of the famed Gaiseric, and son of Huneric, and Eudocia, the daughter of Western Roman emperor Valentinian III, meaning Hilderic was of Roman descent in addition to being Vandal. He ascended the throne in 523 when he was in his 50s or 60s, and his reign is marked by improved relations with his Catholic Christian Roman subjects (Hilderic and the Vandal nobility were Arian Christians) and by extension the Eastern Roman Empire and its ruler Justinian, who was a very good friend of Hilderic. After becoming king, Hilderic converted to Catholic Christianity, the same religion as his mother, and soon other members of the Vandal nobility converted as well. Other nobles were not pleased by this, however, and soon a coup occurred, led by Hilderic&#039;s cousin, Gelimer. Hilderic and his family were imprisoned. Emperor Justinian did not take kindly to what Gelimer had done, and after unsuccessfully negotiating for Hilderic&#039;s restoration, sent his forces to invade the Vandal Kingdom. Unfortunately Justinian was too late to save Hilderic, who was executed by Gelimer in 533, but his invasion of the Vandal Kingdom was successful and, as a result, for the first time in a century Roman rule was returned to Carthage and the rest of North Africa.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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