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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 20833321, member: 84905"]The silver coins minted in the name of Zeno under Odovacer's rule are of course very rare. This is in line with the rarity of silver coins at this time more generally.</p><p>I think the fact that silver coins with Odovacer's name are excessively rare and unavailable to private collectors, is easily explained by the way in which his rule ended and how he was portrait by his successors. While we now know that he was a competent ruler, who brought stability and and some prosperity, the Ostrogoths under Theoderic painted him in the darkest colours, literally as satan himself. Hence, coins in his name were most likely actively removed from circulation and molten down. Indeed, the (likely) genuine piece in the Berlin Coin Cabinett was found outside Italy in Sremska Mitrovice in modern day Serbia. So it had somehow found its way outside the Ostrogothic domain (the area was under Gepidic rule until 504), which is perhaps why it excaped destruction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 20833321, member: 84905"]The silver coins minted in the name of Zeno under Odovacer's rule are of course very rare. This is in line with the rarity of silver coins at this time more generally. I think the fact that silver coins with Odovacer's name are excessively rare and unavailable to private collectors, is easily explained by the way in which his rule ended and how he was portrait by his successors. While we now know that he was a competent ruler, who brought stability and and some prosperity, the Ostrogoths under Theoderic painted him in the darkest colours, literally as satan himself. Hence, coins in his name were most likely actively removed from circulation and molten down. Indeed, the (likely) genuine piece in the Berlin Coin Cabinett was found outside Italy in Sremska Mitrovice in modern day Serbia. So it had somehow found its way outside the Ostrogothic domain (the area was under Gepidic rule until 504), which is perhaps why it excaped destruction.[/QUOTE]
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