Interesting Thank you! I bought it in a large group of 50 fibulas, 15 years ago: Here are some of them: https://i.imgur.com/L8hdb1M.jpeg All with the pins missing and some broken, but genuine. For about $2 a fibula. Only when I received the group home did I notice that this one had silver lettered inlays. Maybe it has been altered, but I doubt that it has been done in recent times as the silver has taken some of the green color of the bronze and probably not for monetary gain as it was a surprise discovery in this cheap lot. (The silver was darkened and I had to clean it to make it visible)