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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 3123378, member: 84905&quot;]Thanks for the link; very interesting. Despite the author&#039;s best effort and the opinion of well known experts like Düwel and Nedoma, I&#039;m afraid these are just &quot;accidental&quot; runes. The writer of the legend tried to imitate Roman writing, leading to the construction of: 1. mostly phantasy letters with no meaning whatsoever and 2. a couple of signs that turned out to look like Germanic runes.</p><p><br /></p><p>My coins are currently in a bank safe, but looking through some Pictures, I can see &quot;accidental&quot; runes also my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are only a handful of runic objects from East Germanic areas, which may well be the result of gift exchange, trade or the presence of North Germanic people (such as Heruls). Indeed, there is no conclusive proof that Goths used runes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, these coin-pendants were made to represent Roman aurei. They were meant to look like Roman coin, without any regard for the actual depiction let alone the legend. I have one example that shows the emperor&#039;s head on both sides. It is, in my view completely out of character to think that on one of these coin-pendents genuine Germanic runes have been mixed into what is otherwise a jumble of unintelligble phantasy-letters - especially in a society which otherwise did not use runes.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Best</p><p>Dirk[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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