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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2603604, member: 83956&quot;]A while back I watched a documentary on the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its famous helmet (reconstructed in the photo). The documentary made a passing reference to the Roman motif of the soldier spearing a fallen barbarian. The documentary implied that this coinage reverse type enjoys an “afterlife” as one of the tin panels on the helmet. I wonder about tracing such influence, or if this is just what it looks like when people get trampled by horses in war. Nonetheless, it was a provocative early medieval (7th c.) connection to this reverse type.[ATTACH=full]568677[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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