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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 627448, member: 57463&quot;]Unless someone can come up with a citation or attribution, my estimate is that these are fantasies, not genuine coins of the Dark Ages.&nbsp; People today who know nothing of history or numismatics think that ancient coins must be crude.&nbsp; Perhaps they saw some Celtic coins that they did not know how to view.&nbsp; They make these to pass them off.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could be wrong -- I have been wrong more often than I care to admit -- but I doubt that these objects are genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Viking&quot; coins (so-called) look like this:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?search=dublin&amp;s=0&amp;results=100" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?search=dublin&amp;s=0&amp;results=100" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?search=dublin&amp;s=0&amp;results=100</a></p><p>or like this</p><p><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=655809&amp;AucID=479&amp;Lot=851" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=655809&amp;AucID=479&amp;Lot=851" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=655809&amp;AucID=479&amp;Lot=851</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Aside to Ripley:&nbsp; Nice guess, but you do not know if the coins are oriented correctly.&nbsp; The Rorschach Test has some limitations...&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />-)&nbsp; The bottom coin, I would rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise, making their 6 o&#039;clock at 3 o&#039;clock. But it would still be nothing...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Something like this from medieval India might be closer, but still far from the mark.</p><p><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=434672&amp;AucID=321&amp;Lot=1551" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=434672&amp;AucID=321&amp;Lot=1551" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=434672&amp;AucID=321&amp;Lot=1551</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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