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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 3120779, member: 84905&quot;]While the Taman imitations cannot be the product of Goths the imitative gold coins, found regularly and in surprisingly large numbers in modern Ukraine probably are:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/pro_podrazhanija/0-84" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/pro_podrazhanija/0-84" rel="nofollow">http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/pro_podrazhanija/0-84</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have over 20 of these imitative gold coins in my own collection. I bought most of them directly in Ukraine. These coins are typically holed or they have suspension loop. they were probably not intended as money. Instead, they were likely made as gifts by chieftains for their distinguished warriors. </p><p><br /></p><p>The factor that links them to the Goths is the fact that they continue after 375 AD when the Goths moved westwards to modern Romania and Hungary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best</p><p>Dirk[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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