05-04-2017, 10:46 AM
(05-03-2017, 11:27 PM)Flavivs Aetivs Wrote: IIRC, a Silver Eagle that may have been used as a Standard was found in a fortress in Serbia or Bulgaria dating to the 4th century AD.
Any Pics? could it have been Gilded?
Just a point on Gold Eagles, most people seem to assume that such pieces would be solid metal and therfore obviously very heavy, its more likely that such a piece would be sheet gold or a hollow casting etc and may have a supporting filling or backing of some kind....
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
