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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 18317682, member: 42034"]Beautiful half-siliqua of Odoacer. I should try to look for one. There has in recent time, perhaps the past 5 or 10 years, been a lot of interest in the end of the Roman Empire. There have been a lot of books also printed addressing this subject. Not the least is Peter Heather's book: The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. I myself have been on an "End of the Western Roman Empire" binge for longer than this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's one result of this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1537318[/ATTACH] </p><p>Western Roman Empire</p><p>Julius Nepos, 1st reign of 474-475 AD</p><p>gold tremissis {1/3 solidus}</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Nepos was the penultimate {next to last} Roman Emperor of the West. He was the last "legitimate" Roman Emperor, recognized by both the West and the East as Romulus Augustus was not recognized - by the East I believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a problem-free (aside from a little circulation) example I bought from Ed Waddell some years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 18317682, member: 42034"]Beautiful half-siliqua of Odoacer. I should try to look for one. There has in recent time, perhaps the past 5 or 10 years, been a lot of interest in the end of the Roman Empire. There have been a lot of books also printed addressing this subject. Not the least is Peter Heather's book: The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. I myself have been on an "End of the Western Roman Empire" binge for longer than this. Here's one result of this: [ATTACH=full]1537318[/ATTACH] Western Roman Empire Julius Nepos, 1st reign of 474-475 AD gold tremissis {1/3 solidus} Julius Nepos was the penultimate {next to last} Roman Emperor of the West. He was the last "legitimate" Roman Emperor, recognized by both the West and the East as Romulus Augustus was not recognized - by the East I believe. This is a problem-free (aside from a little circulation) example I bought from Ed Waddell some years ago.[/QUOTE]
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