Pre-Viking Gold Quinarius Coin Pendant. 5th-7th century A.D. A gold coin pendant formed from a Pseudo-Imperial, uncertain Germanic tribes gold quinarius of the late 3rd-early 4th century A.D. with: Obv: EANOV PI INO AVG legend with E sideways (for ANTONEINOC AVG?) with laureate bust right. Rev: OXPWMEN legend above lion walking left; EVTVXI in exergue; legends blundered, with ribbed suspension loop affixed. See Sergeev 225 corrigenda (same dies, but described as a panther); see Triton XIX (2016) sale lot 599 (same dies, but misdated and the reverse legend misinterpreted); see the Aurum Barbarorum Collection, sold Leu (Zürich), October 2021 (same dies, with similar suspension). 2.90 grams, 17 mm (3/4 in.) Ex UK private collection. Andrei Sergeev, in Barbarian Coins on the Territory between the Balkans and Central Asia - Catalog of Andrei Sergeev's Collection at the State Historical Museum, Moscow, 2012, says '.In the light of recent research, we know that it is certainly part of the Aurum Barbarorum from north of the Danube. This situates the coin in a very specific historical background and dates it to the late 3rd and early 4th century.' The design type is likely to be derived from copying Roman Provincial bronze issues; one of the more probable prototypes was issued at Nicopolis ad Istrum in the reign of Elagabalus (see Varbanov I, 3858). It has a very similar head with Elagabalus' typical large eye on the obverse and an almost identical lion walking to the left on the reverse.