Vandals
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Siliqua, Geisarich,
428-477, Lanz 123-1092
Siliqua, Gunthamund, 484-496, Lanz 123-1093
Siliqua, Thrasamund, 496-523, Lanz 123-1094
Siliqua, Hilderich, 523-530, Lanz 123-1095
Siliqua, Gelimer, 530-534, Lanz 123-1099-1102,
AE Nominals under the Vandal kings:
"XLII"
on a Galba As. After
the Western Empire had collapsed, Germanic kingdoms took its place it
Italy
and Northern Africa. The Vandals started minting bronze coins with the
denominations
of 1, 4,
12, 21,
42, and 83 Nummi, and apparently
also brought Sesterti
and Dupondi of the first and second centrury AD back into circulation
marking
their value in Nummi. Such marks are thus known on Sesterti as 83 Nummi
(LXXXIII) and on Dupondi as 42 Nummi (XLII). Most interesting in that
they
prove coins still being in (or having been brought back into)
circulation
some 500 years after their initial issue. Unpublished is the below
example
of a IIII mark on a Constantine AE likely belonging to this issue also.
Contrary to these Vandalic issues the Ostrogoths
in Italy under Theoderic and his successors seem to have
issued bronze
along the Byzantine monetary system with 5 (V), 10 (X), 20 (XX), and 40
(XL) nummi coins, often with the legend ROMA
INVICTA.
actually
not a countermark, but cut into the coin
Below countermark "IIII"
on a Constantine II coin, possible late Roman for 4 Nummi.