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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7806791, member: 84905&quot;]Here is another interesting &quot;barbaric&quot; Leo I tremissis. This one is not in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex: </p><p>Pecunem auction 3, 5. May 2013, Lot 313</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340822[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Following Italo Vecchi, Pecunem attributed the coin to an Italian mint under Thiudimir, which is a historical impossibility since Thiudimir never set foot in Italy. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if it is possible that these were made by semi-official mints in provincial towns, who employed inapt celators or goldsmiths to alleviate temporary coin shortages, i.e. much like the imitative bronze issues in the 3rd and 4th centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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