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Message:: [QUOTE="seth77, post: 2909640, member: 56653"]From stranger things to the strangest. This is one of Lanz's offers: [ATTACH=full]702314[/ATTACH] These small "barbarous radiates" are considered to have circulated locally from the end of the 3rd century to the beginning of the 4th, mainly in Britain but also in areas of Gaul. But before this consensus, these were thought to have been made during the 5th to the 7th century, some of them -- especially those with no pseudo-legends but dots instead -- being assigned to the vandal mints in Sardinia. Now here comes this one with what looks like an early version of a cross pommette. It's also, at cca. 2.2g and 15mm, rather heavier than the regular "barbarous radiate." The reverse looks a smoothed after cleaning and some signs of tooling are also present. But was it tooled into the cross or the tooling was just used to "improve" what was already there? The annulets also look like they might have been the result of impression rather than carving. Very curious.[/QUOTE]