Dear readers Numismatica Ranieri, today we will offer you interesting information on the coins, barbarian, which, like the coinage of the byzantine has a few fans, not for reasons of style or variety of types, but for the paucity of material available on the market.
We will try to follow the same style used in the article dedicated to the coinage of the byzantine provide you with useful historical background, indications on coins, barbarian, and their value. If you want to evaluate the purchase of rare coins as an investment, we invite you to visit the following sections of our web site: coins, gold investment, online store and auctions of numismatic, where you will certainly find some value opportunities. Good read.
The coinage barbarian
As mentioned in the coinage barbaric as the byzantine has a population of less than fans of other niches numismatic because of the paucity of material available. Not that these coins can be defined as beautiful, but charming. The period of coinage goes from the fall of the western roman empire to the advent of Carlo Magno.
Many of them are imitations of byzantine coins, which carry also the name of the emperor, but, on the reverse side, often appears that the barbarian king, full or monogrammed. Other times, due to the lack of this element, you can proceed to the attribution of the issuer by means of comparisons of the nature of the style.
To begin this kind of collection, a collector's must have, the more that of a lot of money, so much patience. It is one of those classic examples where the demand is greater than supply.
The barbarian peoples who beat the currency in Italy were the Vandals, the Goths and the Lombards. The Vandals and the Goths were minted in gold, silver and bronze; the Lombards, only gold and silver.Coinage type is the same as or similar to the byzantine and the nominal are the solid and the tremisse for gold, siliqua for silver, and the nummo for the bronze.
The barbarian people imitated the coinage of the byzantine why not have a tradition of minting but mainly because they need that their coins were accepted, and the only way to do that was to imitate the working of the era.
Ticks Italian king barbarian
The king and were known coins of ticks in italy are:
The vandals
- Gaiserico,
- Unerico,
- Guntamondo,
- Trasamundo,
- Ilderico,
- Gelimero
The goths
- Odoacer,
- Theodoric,
- Atalarico,
- Teodato,
- Vitiges,
- Matasunta,
- Baduila,
- Teia
Lombards
- Pertarito,
- Cuniperto,
- Ariperto I,
- Ariperto II,
- Liutprando,
- Aistolfo,
- Desire,
- Romoaldo The,
- Gregory,
- Gisolfo II,
- Arichi II,
- Grimoald III,
- Grimoald IV,
- Physical,
- Sicardo,
- Radelchi I,
- Adelchi
It is easily recognizable in the coinage of the lombards, being almost always of the form ladled out, and with an "edge" much in relief.
Conclusions
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