[gothic-l] Re: Trailing the Eruli in the North - solidi

[george knysh]

--- faltin2001 <dirk at smra.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello George,
>
> the Numismatic Museum of Odessa has an image of what
> they call a coin
> of the 'Goths of Taman' on their web-site. Here is
> the link, you have
> to scroll down a little:
>
> http://www.museum.com.ua/en/editing/period2/
>
> As you will see these coins are completely different
> from the coinage
> of the Bosporan Kingdom.

****GK: There are visible similarities (in a general
way) to coins such as the Panticapeum Diobol (period 1
5th c. BC), Sindic coins, Sarmatian imitations of
Roman denarii (period 2 very close to the Goths), but
certainly different from the standard classical coins
of Bosporus. Thank you for the URL link. I had surfed
through the Museum a few months ago but did not keep a
record (I was trying to find the coins of Farzoi and
Inismei !).******

 (D) Firstly, these coins are never found together
with
> Borsporan coins.

*****GK: This is strange. Usually "hoards" can have
coins of various provenance.*****

>(D) Their main region of occurance is the southern
> coasts of the Crimea,
> the Kerch peninsula and the Taman peninsula.

****GK: Much of this is also the area of the Bosporan
Kingdom. But then we also (later?)have the "Gothae
Tetraxitae" here.*****
>
>(D) However, in my view there are some counter
> arguments. Firstly, the
> appearance of Goths on the Crimean and Taman as
> early as 260AD is not
> accepted by all historians, although I read articles
> by Ukrainian
> archaeologists (Aleksander Ajbabin)who clearly state
> that permanent
> Gothic settlement appear on the Crimea as early as
> 240AD.
>
> I have to stop here, but would like to discuss this
> further....

******GK: Please do! And thanks, this is
fascinating****
>
>
> cheers
> Dirk

Ditto, George
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