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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7678781, member: 115171&quot;]Here are a few coins with transposed and inverted A and V, and A lacking crossbar.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1318843[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1318845[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of these have been shown before. </p><p><br /></p><p>#1 is a Gaulic Visigothic Solidus modeled on one of Valentinian III 439-455 AD, of the Ravenna mint.&nbsp; The Visigothic solidi characteristically have a tiny wreath over the emperor’s head on the obverse.&nbsp; Also, the “C’s” at the end of the reverse inscription are distinctive, as is the overall style.&nbsp; MEC 170.&nbsp; This coin is from the sale of the William Subjack collection, Coins of the German Migrations, sold by Italo Vecchi in Nummorum Auctiones 14, lot#8, on 5 February 1999.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the A’s lack crossbars.</p><p><br /></p><p>#2 is a tremisses of 1.45 grams. On the obverse, the N of Dominus Noster is retrograde. On the reverse, the entire legend is retrograde, Victory faces left versus right, and the wreath and cross are opposite to normal. A and V used randomly. </p><p>Jon. Kern to Glenn Woods, to Harlan Berk, to me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>#3 was recently discussed as probably not Ostrogothic given the crudity of style and the obvious illiteracy of the celator.&nbsp; Random A and V again. From Dorotheum 2015, from an “Austrian specialist’s collection.”</p><p><br /></p><p>#4 Probable Merovingian solidus, and every A is an inverted V.&nbsp; From the Subjack collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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