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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7884972, member: 19463&quot;]I believe it is always dangerous to assume that any independent people would have done anything the way their neighboring independent people did.&nbsp; I suppose it is possible that some German leaders had a &#039;Spartan&#039; view of cash but that does not mean that all or even many held the same view.&nbsp; Barbarous coins are fascinating to &#039;study&#039; but, as a whole, what we know is not 1% of what we might need to match what we have learned about the official mints (and we are far short of understanding these completely.&nbsp; Will we ever reach even a slightly better understanding?&nbsp; I am not an optimist.&nbsp; What I can tell you with some confidence is there are some very interesting coins on this page about which I wish we knew anything, let alone everything.&nbsp; Mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360008[/ATTACH] </p><p>I see a rudder on the reverse so I can guess Fortuna.&nbsp; I see a head left on the obverse --- I hope.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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