Crude nummus (AE4) of Athalaric (526-534 CE)?, Ostrogothic Kindgom in Italy

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Bust right, traces of letters (uncleaned) // Monogram (of Alaric II or Athalaric). 9mm, 0.74 grams. 

Rare. Very crude little example. Much better than the scan (it is not completely cleaned, and I could not get a good picture of it). The monogram is crude with a retrograde "C". It is probably a contemporary Gothic or Vandalic imitation of an official coin of Athalaric. The coin also lacks the middle bar (for "H"), it could conceivably belong to the Alaric II (484-507).

Athalaric  was the king of the Ostrogoths in Italy between 526 and 534. He was a son of Eutharic and Amalasuntha, the youngest daughter of Theoderic the Great, whom Athalaric succeeded as king in 526.


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