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ID:
722265
Type:
Goths, Vandals
Region:
GEPIDS
Issuer:
Name of Justin I
Date Ruled:
AD 518-527
Metal:
Silver
Denomination:
Quarter Siliqua
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
AD 518-527
Weight:
0.62 g
Die Axis:
6 h
Obverse Legend:
D N IVSTINVS P LV (first N retrograde)
Obverse Description:
Pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust right
Reverse Legend:
VINVICTL ROMLNI
Reverse Description:
Large “Theodericus” monogram across fields, cross above; all within wreath
Mint:
Sirmium
Primary Reference:
COI pp. 43-44
Reference2:
Demo 122 (Sirmium)
Reference3:
Numismatica Ars Classica 33, lot 691 (same dies)
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=86032
Notes:
Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2265 Extremely rare. While coins of this type were first attributed by Brunsmid to the Gepids, the later attribution of Stefan to an Ostrogothic mint at Sirmium has become the most accepted. The incompatibility of the weights of these issues with the Ostrogothic weight standard established under Theoderic, as well as the stylistic and epigraphic similarity with other Gepid issues struck in the names of both Anastasius and Justinian I, led Metlich to conclude that the whole so-called “Sirmium” group is, in fact, Gepid.The Gepids were a sub-tribe of the Goths who began arriving in Dacia in the AD 260s, and spread throughout the Balkans before invading Italy in the wake of collapsing Roman power in the late 5th century AD. For the most part, the Gepids were merely vassals of the greater Ostrogothic or Hunnic tribes, but from AD 454, when they defeated the Huns at Nadeo, to AD 552, when they were displaced by the Lombards, the Gepids possessed a state of their own in the region of the Carpathians and around Sirmium. Very rare silver siliquae and quarter siliquae are attributed to the Gepids during this period.
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