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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 4016399, member: 84905"]We will perhaps never know for sure, but personally, I don't think that the Vandals, Suevians and Alans, who crossed the Rhine in AD 406/407 minted any coins while plundering and ransacking Gaul. The same I think is true for the Burgundians and Franks, who also had crossed the Rhine at that time, but partly with Roman endorsement (the Frankish tribes actually attacked the Vandals trying to prevent their crossing into Gaul, but without much success). </p><p><br /></p><p>I think these very early Siliqua imitations were the product of abandoned provinces, i.e. regions were some sort of Roman life and trade continued for which they still needed small silver denominations, which were, however, no longer flowing in in sufficient numbers. Find spot evidence suggests, that the coin I showed above was made in Britain, and it was probably made by Romano-British locals who had to fall back on their own resources when official Rome withdrew.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Stephen Bland from the BM silver circulated for about another 30 years after AD 410 in Britain, but with official coins heavily clipped and unofficial ones displaying increasingly lighter standards. The coin above probably belongs to the beginning of this Phase, perhaps to the time from about AD 410 to 420.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 4016399, member: 84905"]We will perhaps never know for sure, but personally, I don't think that the Vandals, Suevians and Alans, who crossed the Rhine in AD 406/407 minted any coins while plundering and ransacking Gaul. The same I think is true for the Burgundians and Franks, who also had crossed the Rhine at that time, but partly with Roman endorsement (the Frankish tribes actually attacked the Vandals trying to prevent their crossing into Gaul, but without much success). I think these very early Siliqua imitations were the product of abandoned provinces, i.e. regions were some sort of Roman life and trade continued for which they still needed small silver denominations, which were, however, no longer flowing in in sufficient numbers. Find spot evidence suggests, that the coin I showed above was made in Britain, and it was probably made by Romano-British locals who had to fall back on their own resources when official Rome withdrew. According to Stephen Bland from the BM silver circulated for about another 30 years after AD 410 in Britain, but with official coins heavily clipped and unofficial ones displaying increasingly lighter standards. The coin above probably belongs to the beginning of this Phase, perhaps to the time from about AD 410 to 420.[/QUOTE]
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