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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4003545, member: 93416"]Fascinating thread. My though here is just a hunch – will run it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes?</p><p><br /></p><p>1579 seems to me way early for people to be creating fake coins of obscure individuals for the market. My guess is that Goltzius had a sophisticated historical knowledge but was less competent as a numismatist, and more likely just misread a genuine coin. Nobles with more money that sense would be thicker on the ground a century or two later, and the fakes seen above were perhaps a consequence rather than a cause of what Goltzius put. His innocent error triggered the later opportunists</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a parallel example of roughly this sort of thing (Bertrand Russell used it as an example before me, but the source is a footnote on p. 358 of the 1936 Oxford History of Roman Britain).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since Bede (c. 700 AD) there has been a tradition that two brothers, Hengist and Horta, began the Angles conquest of England: Bede backs this up by suggesting the grave stone of Horta was still to be seen in Kent in his day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oxford History of Roman Britain however suggests Horta never existed - Bede just got carried away having merely seen a damaged Roman memorial, with the letters HORS still showing - ‘from some such word as COHORS’.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4003545, member: 93416"]Fascinating thread. My though here is just a hunch – will run it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes? 1579 seems to me way early for people to be creating fake coins of obscure individuals for the market. My guess is that Goltzius had a sophisticated historical knowledge but was less competent as a numismatist, and more likely just misread a genuine coin. Nobles with more money that sense would be thicker on the ground a century or two later, and the fakes seen above were perhaps a consequence rather than a cause of what Goltzius put. His innocent error triggered the later opportunists Here is a parallel example of roughly this sort of thing (Bertrand Russell used it as an example before me, but the source is a footnote on p. 358 of the 1936 Oxford History of Roman Britain). Since Bede (c. 700 AD) there has been a tradition that two brothers, Hengist and Horta, began the Angles conquest of England: Bede backs this up by suggesting the grave stone of Horta was still to be seen in Kent in his day. Oxford History of Roman Britain however suggests Horta never existed - Bede just got carried away having merely seen a damaged Roman memorial, with the letters HORS still showing - ‘from some such word as COHORS’. Rob T[/QUOTE]
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