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I am in contact with Adam Degler, the author of the article on the aureus imitation with Germanic runes. I have to revise my earlier opinion. I think that these may be runes after all.

I have been to the bank vault today to pick up my aureus/solidi imitations to have a closer look at the legends. I think I found Germanic runes on one of them (I have 22 pieces). This is quite exciting and it suggests that the interpretation of these coins or coin pendants is more complicated than I thought before.

I still believe that most of them were mere copies with little regards for the image, let alone the legend. However, some (very few) seem to be different. A highly speculative interpretation could be: the bulk of the imitations were made by East Germanic Goths, who did not normally use runes and very few were made by North Germanic Heruls, who did use runes - again, this is just speculation.

Best
Dirk

 

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I am glad that our discussion is helpful.
I am waiting impatiently for photos of imitation coins with probable runes.

 

Small experiment.
I already know what it was supposed to be.

 

What is this?

 

It looks like a barbarous copy of Dea Caelestis reverse like this one, but I don't recognize the obverse :

 

ok obverse
Probably

 

Imitation of a denarius - Goths or other unknown people.
My new coin from the last group of these imitations.
Is the cross related to Christianity?

 

Interesting imitation. Chernyakhov-culture
Obverse. Inscription SIM SIM SIM and inverted SIM. Punc
Punca - die Punze?