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Offline Bebek2006

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Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« on: August 19, 2022, 08:26:01 am »
Hi!
I bought this barbarous imitation of Tetricus few years ago, because there is a strange legend on it, which looks like runic inscription.
Could it be runic inscription, or common barbarous legend imitating latin?

Best regards,
Karol

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Re: Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2022, 08:27:27 am »
And reverse...

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Re: Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2022, 08:58:42 am »
I am pretty sure that whoever made this coin knew neither the Latin alphabet nor the runes. And he also had no artistic talent either.
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Re: Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2022, 03:41:56 pm »
There may be a runic symbol or two among the gibberish.  Runic symbols existed long before they coalesced into a writing system.  But I think most probably all is just gibberish.

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Re: Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2022, 04:41:03 pm »
There may be a runic symbol or two among the gibberish.

Some runes are so simply that it is hard to find a barbarous coin which hasn't such "runes" in legend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_(rune)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyfu
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Re: Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2022, 07:55:31 am »
Good observation!  I have even found some on ancient imitations of the common cow and calf drachms of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium in Illyria, but I have never had any luck in finding any meaningful inscription.

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Re: Barbarous Tetricus with runic inscription?
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2022, 08:45:44 am »
Thanks for opinions, probably you're right. ;)

 

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