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Message:: [QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7840943, member: 84905"]Hi Al, I disagree. I think the only safe attribution for this coin is "imitation by an uncertain mint". The attribution to Germanic tribesmen is complete speculation and certainly no "safe". On the dating, I said that I agree with the auction house, which dated the coin to the first half of the 5th century. Hence, it may well have been minted some 2, maybe even 3, decades after the death of Honorius. This still leaves Radagais' and Alaric's Goths the only Germanic groups roaming around in northern Italy. Yet, there is no shred of evidence that they engaged in any other activity than besieging and plundering and it is exceedingly unlikely that they minted Silver coins. So at least we can probably agree that the comination of 1. uncertain Germanic tribes 2. Northern Italy and 3. first half of the fifth century is pure fantasy and probably intended to raise bidders' interest.[/QUOTE]