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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 995377, member: 19463&quot;]I became aware of the stirrup question as a result of my friendship with Victor Failmezger which eventually led to my doing photos for his book on Late Roman Coins.&nbsp; At the same time (February 1997) I decided I wanted to learn HTML so I started a very simple web page with one on the subject.&nbsp; Those were simple days but this was my first page:</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/notsev.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/notsev.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/notsev.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I long since stopped updating the pages but this one has a couple updates that address some of your questions.&nbsp; There is no agreement on the matter and some &#039;experts&#039; on the coins refuse to believe that the barbarians are intended to be any particular tribe.&nbsp; When I wrote the page, people who believed in the stirrups were treated like people who believe in UFO&#039;s.&nbsp; While I believe in stirrups, I have other more pressing causes to champion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you decide to study the Horsemen, you need to see the coins here:</p><p><a href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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