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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3541311, member: 82549&quot;]Regular Roman issues continued into the 5th century, during which time the size of the smallest denominations shrunk down to around 10mm. Pretty tiny, but still larger than some of the hemiobols of Greece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compounding the problem of these coins is that they were both:</p><p>A) Crudely designed and executed on poor fabric; and</p><p>B) Widely, and even more crudely, imitated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of these imitations have been attributed to the Vandalic tribes of North Africa, but to my knowledge, no one has been able to explain how to tell a Vandalic imitation from an otherwise barbarous imitation from an official issue. I have several hundred examples of these coins sitting in a bowl on my desk that I can&#039;t make heads or tails of. Are they official? Which emperor is depicted? Beats me. Quite frankly, I&#039;m not sure what to do with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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