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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7840688, member: 115171&quot;]We may have to consider expanding our attempts at attribution of these coins.&nbsp; Official but inexpert production is clearly a possibility.&nbsp; However, the vast range of design and orthography suggests to me that there may be may be multiple sources. [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER] has suggested the Vandals, Burgundians, Visigoths, and Franks as potential candidates but (correct me if I am wrong) finds all of these unlikely on stylistic grounds or for other reasons. </p><p>Leu in its recent Aurum Barbarorum auction, and papers like this one in Studia Barbarica <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36678273/Myzgin_K_Vida_I_Więcek_T_Gold_imitations_of_Roman_coins_from_collection_of_Hungarian_National_Museum_in_Budapest?email_work_card=reading-history" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/36678273/Myzgin_K_Vida_I_Więcek_T_Gold_imitations_of_Roman_coins_from_collection_of_Hungarian_National_Museum_in_Budapest?email_work_card=reading-history" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/36678273/Myzgin_K_Vida_I_Więcek_T_Gold_imitations_of_Roman_coins_from_collection_of_Hungarian_National_Museum_in_Budapest?email_work_card=reading-history</a> indicate to me that imitations of late Roman gold coins were readily manufactured in the Barbaricum, and probably not always under the aegis of an organized tribe/kingdom.&nbsp; I grant that many of these coins were made to be used as amulets or jewelry.&nbsp; But the expertise to make them was not that rare, and if they could coin gold for jewelry they could manufacture coins for circulation.&nbsp; </p><p>All of which leaves the Who? And the Why? Unanswered.&nbsp; More food for thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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