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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8152838, member: 84905&quot;]Great coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I think a more exact prototype to the Aethelred penny is this Probus below. It would be even closer, if I had a variety with baltheus (sword belt). The pattern of his armour (lorica hamata) is repeated on the shield. So the Anglo-Saxon die engravers didn&#039;t really have to interpret a continuation, but copied what they saw on Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422259[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the question why the Anglo-Saxons copied 700 year old coin designs is really fascinating. Were these Roman coins still so prevalent that people recognized them as money? Or (more likely in my view) was the idea of Rome and Roman civilization still so prestigious that rulers wanted to associate themselves with everything Roman, even after so many centuries?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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