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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 3128787, member: 84905&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best</p><p>Dirk[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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