Solidus in the name of Honorius, degenerated

The Suebi, settled in northwestern Iberia after their crossing of the Rhine in 406, lacked the administrative machinery to strike original coinage and instead produced imitative solidi copying late Roman imperial types. These pieces were never meant to deceive — the debasement to roughly 70% gold was open knowledge among those handling them, and the Suebi economy ran largely on the understood bullion value rather than face authority. The reference to Honorius is purely nominal; by the time most of these were struck, Honorius had been dead for decades.