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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 4904902, member: 75482"][USER=57463]@kaparthy[/USER] Here is an article I looked through before writing my post: <a href="https://brewminate.com/coinage-and-collapse-the-contribution-of-numismatic-data-to-understanding-the-end-of-roman-britain/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brewminate.com/coinage-and-collapse-the-contribution-of-numismatic-data-to-understanding-the-end-of-roman-britain/" rel="nofollow">https://brewminate.com/coinage-and-collapse-the-contribution-of-numismatic-data-to-understanding-the-end-of-roman-britain/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My own interest in the topic began when I was collecting barbarous radiates some years ago. At one time it was believed that the radiate minimi constituted a British Dark Age coinage. In the 1940s Philip Hill went so far as to describe them as the the coins of "Hengist and Horsa with their Jutes". This notion was eventually overturned by a hoard of radiate minimi found at the Verulamium Roman Theatre in 1937, sealed below a pediment laid before the year 300. With some of the smallest and crudest radiate minimi proved to have been roughly contemporary with their prototypes, the onus fell on those who advocated for a Dark Age coinage. By the 1970s a consensus was reached. George Boon ("Counterfeit coins in Roman Britain" <u>in</u> <i>Coins and the Archaeologist, </i>2nd ed., Seaby, 1988) sums it up eloquently, "Gone are the days when numismatists argued for an extremely late fifth, indeed sixth century - persistence of 'barbarous radiates' and 'falling horsemen'... A Dark Age coinage will not delay us here, for there was none." Boon's article is some 86 pages with extensive references and well worth a read. He also addresses the end of coinage in Britain, including clipped siliquae. It is out of print but often available through the usual sources. A Google search including "coins" and "sub-Roman Britain" will bring up much more. A search for "Patching Hoard" may also prove fruitful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 4904902, member: 75482"][USER=57463]@kaparthy[/USER] Here is an article I looked through before writing my post: [URL]https://brewminate.com/coinage-and-collapse-the-contribution-of-numismatic-data-to-understanding-the-end-of-roman-britain/[/URL] My own interest in the topic began when I was collecting barbarous radiates some years ago. At one time it was believed that the radiate minimi constituted a British Dark Age coinage. In the 1940s Philip Hill went so far as to describe them as the the coins of "Hengist and Horsa with their Jutes". This notion was eventually overturned by a hoard of radiate minimi found at the Verulamium Roman Theatre in 1937, sealed below a pediment laid before the year 300. With some of the smallest and crudest radiate minimi proved to have been roughly contemporary with their prototypes, the onus fell on those who advocated for a Dark Age coinage. By the 1970s a consensus was reached. George Boon ("Counterfeit coins in Roman Britain" [U]in[/U] [I]Coins and the Archaeologist, [/I]2nd ed., Seaby, 1988) sums it up eloquently, "Gone are the days when numismatists argued for an extremely late fifth, indeed sixth century - persistence of 'barbarous radiates' and 'falling horsemen'... A Dark Age coinage will not delay us here, for there was none." Boon's article is some 86 pages with extensive references and well worth a read. He also addresses the end of coinage in Britain, including clipped siliquae. It is out of print but often available through the usual sources. A Google search including "coins" and "sub-Roman Britain" will bring up much more. A search for "Patching Hoard" may also prove fruitful.[/QUOTE]
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