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This Mysterious Gold Pendant Featuring a Misspelled Inscription Is an Early Medieval Imitation of a Roman Coin
It was designed to look like a Roman coin—called a solidus—that had ... historians think it was meant to be worn as jewelry, not used as currency. This makes it “very unusual,” Adrian ...
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Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos
The piece of jewelry copies the imagery and inscriptions found on coins from the time of emperor Honorius, ruler of the Western Roman Empire from A.D. 393 to 423. The obverse shows a bust of ...